Gurgaon: City recorded 634 new Covid cases on Tuesday, up sharply from 460 cases on Monday, and a one-day infection surge in the highest after May 20 last year, when 1,091 people have tested positive.
At present, the city has 2,311 active cases, with 12 patients in the hospital.
2,299 people are in house isolation.
The level of prisoners jumped to 9.02%.
It’s 6.8% on Monday.
The city also saw 150 covid patients recovered on Tuesday.
New Tuesday’s infection count was half of the total number of Covid cases, the city recorded last month (1,264).
District administration states 20 new detention zones in the city.
The city now has 41 detention zones, where additional detention protocols will be followed, such as sanitism and screening.
Patients in house isolation have been marked by geographical with their telephone numbers, and officials say the police will monitor their movements to ensure they live at home.
Anticipating an increase in hospitalization, the Ministry of Health on Tuesday also traveled dry oxygen plants in a civil hospital, sector 10.
“We have added 44 beds to the Covid Ward in the hospital and do dry oxygen dried plants in the hospital so in the state Any emergency, we are not caught off guard, “said Dr.
Virender Yadav, a medical officer.
According to officials, the city needs almost 60 tons of oxygen every day during the second covid wave.
At the peak of the pandemic in May, a large city hospital depends on plants in Gujarat and Rajasthan for liquid oxygen, supplied in tankers and even trains.
Gurgaon has three oxygen reinforcement plants.
The city now has 24 of them – 12 each in private and government facilities.
Two can produce 1,500 liters per minute (LPM) each oxygen.
Ten of them each can produce 1,000 LPM.
The rest has a capacity of 500 LPM.
In the detention zone, the Ministry of Health informed, there was something that could be assigned after two weeks if there was no further surge in the case.