Gurugram: More than half of the people in Haryana, or 54.2% of the country’s population, have firmly comply with social distance norms – a study conducted along with the sero survey of the three countries has been concluded based on the response of people filled with Surveyors.
Among others, 28.7%, which translated into 3 out of 10 people, claimed to have never followed social distance and 17.1% claimed they sometimes followed him by avoiding a crowded place.
Last month, Haryana conducted a sero survey throughout the country to find out how many people had Covid antibodies.
In the same survey, they asked participants of important questions – “Have you followed social distance?”.
This survey has 36,520 respondents.
From them, 21,912 people over 18 years, 10,956 were between 10 and 17 years, while 3,652 respondents were between 6 and 9 years.
In the case of children under 11 years old, their parents answered for them.
Also, 52.4% of respondents in the survey were women while 47.5% were male and 0.1% belonging to the transgender community.
In Gurugram, 64.5% claimed to have always been or often avoided in contact with the symptomatic people or those who think they might have been exposed to Covid-19.
Meanwhile, Kurukshetra – who has the highest seropositivity – witnessed that the maximum number of people (73.4%) did not follow the social distance, followed by Rohtak (57.10%), Palwal (51.20%), Noah (51%) fatehabad (41.40%) (41.40%)).
Experts note that many people have “dropped the idea to maintain social distance” after a reduction in the case.
“It is true that the lack of social distance is still a big problem.
Our team asks questions about social distance for each participant.
It is important for us to know their behavior because it helps us analyze the growth of the virus.
It is true that half of the respondents admit that they do not follow social distance , which is difficult in countries like India with a high population.
I will state that it is one of the Covid protocol pillars that we must follow, “said Dr.
Dhruv Chaudhary, The Nodal Officer for Covid-19 in Haryana.
In the third possible wave, he said, “There will be a case and a break-through case and infection, but we will not watch the wave again.
At present, the infection rate is less than before.
This is a good sign that the vaccine works.
However, it is very important for people to follow Social distance, wear masks and wash hands correctly.
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Amha Gupta, Director of Health Services (IDSP) and the Main Coordinator of the Sero survey, said:” Even though the number of daily cases has declined, and we have observed a fairly high seropositivity, non-non-intervention Other pharmacologists such as physical distance, use of face masks, hand hygiene, cough etiquette and avoidance of crowded places, must be strictly followed.
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