Chandigarh: Towards the Selection of the State Assembly when there must be a full focus on not allowing the Covid situation to deteriorate, Punjab seems to have dropped his safeguards.
The country has done a little more than a third of the number of tests has set a target for the past week.
The Punjab Health Department on January 2 has set ambitious daily testing targets from 60,000 tests every day – 35,000 RT-PCR and 25,000 mice – which are further distributed between the district based on population and size.
All districts managed to maintain the desired ratio between RT-PCR and RAT but failed to achieve setting the target.
Their collective testing counts even failed to pass a half sign.
Ludhiana has been given the highest daily testing of 8,200 – 4,800 RT-PCR and 3,400 rats – followed by the target of 5,400 for Amritsar, 4,600 in Jalandhar and 4,000 in Patiala with a special focus on severe acute respiratory disease (Sari) and influenza disease patients (ILI), The symptomatic people who came to the OPD / IPD, international tourists and their contacts, Covid-19 patient contacts, people in the detention zone, vulnerable population, prison \ old house \ home-house with co-morbidity and commercial places .
During the past seven days, the number of tests between January 3 to 9 ranged from 9,384 and 28.482.
Against the target set 4.20,000, only 1,49,839 (35.67%) tests were carried out for a week with patiala, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, and Pathankot that contributed the most on the number of tests.
The state will also be loose on contact contacts – the size of the main public health for outbreaks of infectious diseases – and tracking positive cases, especially in the high-risk selection period.
The search was recorded at 13.9 contacts per case over a seven-day period ended on January 6 as many as 10 districts failed to match the country’s average by tracking fewer contacts, which included several of the most famous districts such as Patiala and Ludhiana.
Tracing Contacts – The process identifies the source of infection and tracking of people filled with patients before testing positive – considered the key to disturbing the transmission chain.
During the assessment period, 5,684 contacts 409 cases were where 29% were found to be infected with a virus.
A senior health official associated the testing number and low search with a lack of labor because of a prolonged strike by various health worker associations, including employees of the National Health Mission (NHM).
3,969 Covid Cases, 43 Omicron in Punjabpunjab reported 43 Omicron cases, took the total calculation to 61.
A total of 3,969 fresh Covid-19 cases reported while seven deaths in Bathinda and Ludhiana and one in Gurdaspur, Jalandhar and Patiala – were recorded on Monday .
The front rate of daily cases has increased to 19.31%.
Ludhiana occupied a list of lists with a maximum of 806 cases followed by Mohali where 687 was tested positive, 455 in Patiala, Distance, Distance, 290 in Amritsar, 236 in Hoshiarpur, 203 in Ropar, 85 in Faridkot, 79 in Ferozepur, 69 in Fatehgarh Sahib, 64 In Gurdaspur, 58 in Moga, 49 in Nawanhahr, 48 in Tarn Taran, 44 in Barnala, 43 in Kapurthala, 21 in Mangsa, 20 in Muktsar.
As many as 2,37,483 beneficiaries in various categories were given a vaccine dose.
Covid-19: Punjab testing targets are lost with large margins
