The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Saturday has deployed over 90 teams for flood rescue works across India with a strong focus on sanitisation of men and material amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official said to a news agency.

NDRF Director General (DG) S N Pradhan said, "We have earmarked over 90 teams across the country for flood rescue related works".

The DG said new strategies would be implemented for rescue drills and rescuers in view of the coronavirus pandemic. The deployment of NDRF teams will take place with full preventive and protective precautions with a strong focus on sanitisation and hygiene of men and material, Pradhan said.

An NDRF team for flood rescue has about 45 personnel and it is equipped with gadgets and inflatable boats.

NDRF teams will also carry their own temperature check gadgets, masks, sanitisers and basic medicine kit.

"A unified disaster control room will be run by us and round-the-clock monitoring of all teams and their work will be done as usual from the NDRF headquarters in Delhi," the DG said.