Chandigarh: With a new case projection set for doubling in about 64 days at the current growth rate, Punjab has decided to increase Covid-19 testing in the state for at least 60,000 tests per day.
The Chairman of the Punjab Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday ordered the State Health Department to ensure a high level of testing, while almost inaugurated the Covid ward of children and the PSA oxygen factory in Ludhiana and Faridkot on Saturday.
Reviewing the country’s preparation for the third wave that will soon occur, Captain Amarinder directs the Ministry of Health to conduct priority sentinel testing for OPD / IPD patients in the government and private hospitals, travelers at the entry point, government offices, staff at the wedding palace, restaurants, pubs, Bar and gym.
Based on this, the district must formulate a strategy for the micro detention zone, he said, noting that GIS-based supervision and prevention tools, with automatic trigger mechanisms for local restrictions, now live in all districts.
Covid Pediatric Ward at Ludhiana Civil Hospital now has five units of pediatric intensive care (Picus) and eight multicycle inflammatory syndromes in children’s beds (MISC).
Advanced ultra-modern Picus is comparable to the best in this country, said the minister’s chairman.
With the installation of PSA plants, the dependence of the state in the supply of oxygen from the outside of the punjab will substantially reduce, he said, adding that the preparation to increase the capacity of oxygen to 560MT, including 235 MT LMO and around 328 MT from the PSA, ASUS and Oxygen Concentrator.
At the top of the second wave, Punjab utilizes around 308 MT oxygen.
He ordered the priority of teachers and staff who did not teach for vaccinations, with special camps to ensure that all covered with the first dose this month and those caused by the second dose were also prioritized.
Balbir Minister Singh Sidhu suggested reducing the gap between two doses to prioritize the second dose for other teachers and school staff.
In schools, which recently reopened for certain classes in the state, said Minister of Chief when there were several reports on high-ranking in schools, the fact was that intensive testing had shown that the participation among school students was 0 1% of total pioneositives of 0.2% in the past week.
Since August 9, 41 students and 1 staff member at the government school has been tested positively.
Calling a tight vigil, he directs the department concerned to ensure that only teaching is fully vaccinated and non-teaching staff physically will teach in schools and colleges.
The number of students must be cared for if the teacher who is very vaccinated is not available, ordering CM.
Amarinder said parents of sustainable children must also be encouraged to be vaccinated to enabling physical learning in school without interruption.
Even when he revealed the satisfaction of the start of the operation in the entire Lab of the genome sequencing in Gmch Patiala in his relationship with the path, with none of the eight samples tested there so far only showed the Delta variant.
Early Saturday, 92 samples will be sent every three weeks for genome sequencing.
Noticing that more than half of the eligible country population has received a dose of vaccine, with available stocks used without waste, the minister’s head said he, during his meeting with the ENI Minister of Health earlier this week, was searched for direct supply of 55 doses of lakh to analyzing the population Punjab who qualifies.
He has been convinced of increasing inventory, said Captain Amarinder.
Incidentally, the first dose of the Covid vaccine has been given to around 82 lakh people (40% of the country’s population that qualified) and the second dose to nearly 24 people lakh (11% of the beneficiaries who qualified), which, said the minister’s chairman, has the capacity to Planning for eight lakh people per day.