Chandigarh: Pandemi has begun to spread his tentacles in the Punjab state by recording a massive surge of almost 282% in cases in the past four weeks.
The resurrection of the case, which, which and large remained controlled for almost four months, ahead of the assembly polls and threats that spread rapidly the highly contagious Omicron variants had made public health experts worry.
The state reported 1,675 new cases in the last four weeks.
Between December 5 and 11, 246 cases have emerged, a count of up to 939 for a week ended in 1.
During this period, the number of detention zones increased 12.
Pathankot emerged as the worst-affected district with the highest level of weekly weekly level 4, 61%, followed by Patiala at 2.67%.
Bathinda and Mohali are two other districts with a weekly front department of 2.25% and 1.26%, which is higher than the average state of 1%.
Patiala and Pathankot contributed nearly 44% of 1,041 active cases in the state.
Patiala has a maximum of 244 active cases when in Pathankot 211 patients are under treatment.
There were 114 active cases in Mohali, 112 in Jalandhar and 110 in Ludhiana.
The situation seems to be controlled in other districts.
Spike is associated to increase activity related to polls of Patiatala and Pathankot by almost 44% of 1,041 active cases in the state.
Patiala has a maximum of 244 active cases when in Pathankot 211 patients are under treatment.
There were 114 active cases in Mohali, 112 in Jalandhar and 110 in Ludhiana.
The situation seems to still be under control in other districts.
Spike has been associated with an increase in connected polls with political parties and people do not follow the appropriate Covid behavior.
The leaders of all political parties did not leave the stone missed to persuade voters by organizing large meetings where setting social-social norms and wearing masks – thrown into the wind.
Dr.
Rakesh Kumar Gupta, President of the Strategic Institute for Public Health Education and Research (Sopher) warned that every weakness can now be proven fatal.
“All stakeholders and general public – need to act responsibly and must follow the corresponding behavior of covid so that the pandemic remains controlled,” said Dr.
Gupta which urged them to remember the horror of the second waves.
Considering the possibility of the threat of rapid deployment, Indian Election Commission, during a recent visit to the country, has directed the Punjab state election commission to ensure compliance with the norms set.
In terms of norm violations, the Commission has the power to prohibit the default candidate from holding public meetings.
In addition, the actions needed under the disaster management law and the epidemic law will be initiated by the district administration.
Pupjab posts almost 300% increase in Covid in 4 weeks
