Cabinet Secretary alerted-
Corona prevention advice to increase ground level work and emphasize 24-hour monitoring.
Know more on Corona –
The Corona epidemic is once again rampant in eight states of the country and the number of patients is increasing rapidly. In Maharashtra, the number of active patients has doubled in 15 days and in the country more than 30 thousand active patients have increased within a week.
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gaba on Saturday alerted them by holding a review meeting with the secretaries of the eight states. Gaba recommends increasing ground level work for corona prevention and emphasizing 24-hour monitoring. Apart from Maharashtra, secretaries of Punjab, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana were present in the meeting.
According to the Union Health Ministry-
16,488 newly infect patients were found in the country on Friday. While 113 people have died. Meanwhile 12,771 patients were discharge from the hospital. With this, the total number of infected patients in the country has increased to more than 1.10 crore, out of which 1.07 crore patients have been health. While 1,54,938 patients died of corona. Currently, the number of active patients has increased to 1,59,590. Until recently, the active rate in the country was 1.31 percent, which has now risen to 1.44 percent.
Number of active Corona patients has increased –
86 percent of patients were found in only six states, According to the Ministry of Health, on Friday, 85.75 percent of infect patients in the country were found in only six states. The maximum 8,333 patients were in Maharashtra. While 3671 new patients were found in Kerala. Talking about the last two weeks, although the number of active patients in Kerala has come down from 63,847 to 51,679, there is a growing form of corona due to the high number of infect patients found here every day. As of February 14, there were 34,449 active patients in Maharashtra, which has now increased to 68,810. Apart from this, the number of active patients has increased in Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Punjab.
Relief: no deaths in 17 states-
It is a matter of relief that no person has died in the last one day due to Corona virus in 17 states. But there are three states Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab where more than 10 patients succumbed during treatment. With the increase of Corona virus, investigations are now increasing. In the last two weeks, on an average the daily Covid test was less than seven lakhs, but in the last one day. 7.73 lakh samples were test.
Cabinet Secretary gave instructions to states –
The cabinet secretary gave necessary instructions to the eight states in the meeting. He said that the level of immediate investigation should be increased in the districts where corona cases are increasing. In these districts, RT-PCR investigation should given more attention. Administration and governments should keep extra vigil on the areas of high infection, the cabinet secretary informed the states about the new mutation of the virus and also said genome sequencing is necessary.
In some parts of the country, Corona’s death rate is still high –
He said, along with control over the corona, it is more important to find out about its new forms, its only option is genome sequencing. The cabinet secretary said, ‘Corona’s death rate is still high in some parts of the country. For this, with more focus on medical management, it has been ask to complete the vaccination in the affect districts. With all these advice, it has been apply to the states to strictly follow the Covid Vigilance Rules. State governments can also carry out campaigns at the mass group level.
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