Chandigarh: The spread of infection in the third-19-19 wave in Punjab will occur at a much higher speed than the national average, with the number of confirmed cases of shooting at almost two times the all-India in the past week.
While the number of hospitalization since the third wave lift is still very low, health experts worry that a higher growth rate for a longer period of time will eventually flood health infrastructure such as the destructive second wave where the number of people is hospitalized.
Data analysis for the past two weeks shows that the daily growth rate of cases in the country rose from 0.
3% on January 3 to 6.
2% on January 16.
Conversely, all-Indian levels increased from 0.4% to 3.
5%.
Punjab added 58,741case from January 1 to 16 -3,671 cases on average.
Gravity The current situation in Punjab can be measured from the fact that around 82% of districts report the weekly participant level of more than 10% and not even one district has a level of peposititivity below the 5% specified limit.
Mohali has the highest weekly front level of 40.
68%, more than eight times higher than the limits set by the World Health Organization.
In Patiala, another district affected by the worst, 34.
04% of samples found infected from 10 to 16 January, 32.
18% in Bathinda, 29.
66 in Ropar, 24.
89 in Ludhiana, 24.
67% in Amritsar and 23 .
32% at Fatehgarh Sahib.
Punjab Covid-19 Nodal Officer Dr.
Rajesh Bhaskar states that the Ministry of Health focuses on detention steps.
He shares that the amount of micro detention and a large detention zone has increased to break the transmission chain.
“All necessary steps are taken to prevent the spread,” he added.
Although the state has sufficient capacity for the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test (RT-PCR), many districts use fast and less accurate fast testing methods.
In Muktsar, 61% of the tests during the past week were carried out using mice when in Fazilka, testing quickly contributed 60% of the total test, 59% in Gurdapur, 54% in 50% sangrur.
Quick antigen tests produce results in 15-20 minutes with an accuracy of around 70%, it is possible to remove false negatives, while the results of RTPCR, which is considered the gold standard in the diagnosis of Covid-19 is processed in 24 hours.
Variations are broad at the level of peposititivity in both tests observed.
Data from the Ministry of Health reveals that people tested using RPCR, 22.
1% found infected on January 15, while the results of only 10% of the sample became positive in the case of antigen testing.
The day before, the results of 28.
8% of people were tested using RT-PCR out positive, while 4.
4% tested with a quickly found positive kit.
PB reported 20 deaths, 6,656 Chandigarh case: Covid claimed 20 more life in Punjab while 6,656 new cases appeared on Monday.
One old death added to the state counting.
Daily case positivity was recorded at 20.89%.
The highest of 1,279 cases were reported at Jalandhar, 1,041 in Ludhiana, 702 in Mohali.
As many as 2,82,649 beneficiaries were given a vaccine dose, where 45,324 received their first dose and1.05.684 received the second dose.