Gurugram: The Ministry of Health, on Monday, issued an advisor to stay at home to residents over 60 years with comorbidity, pregnant women, and children under 10 years, given the surge in Covid cases and the ongoing season festival.
The average daily case has surged up to 17 months from nine in November.
Only in the last three days, the city registered 188 covid patients.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, most of the patients, who were recently tested positively, have been stored in house isolation.
The focus now is on contacts and treats the earliest patient.
“We have increased the number of tests and focus more on RT-PCR tests.
We are doing more than 5,000 RT-PCR tests per day in the city,” said Dr.
Virender Yadav, the head of the medical officer, Gurugram.
Everyday case is expected to increase in the coming days.
“The only protection from the spread of the virus limits out of the house and wore a mask.
We also attract people to get their earliest vaccination,” Yadav added.
The Ministry of Health also told that festivals and events would not be permitted in the detention zone.
Exhibition organizers and exhibitions in other locations must maintain staggered timings and limited entries.
They also have to install separate entries and exit gates to avoid crowding, and no symptoms must be allowed in place.
Volunteers, meanwhile, must be placed appropriately to ensure thermal scanning, social blasphemy and masks in that place.
The advisor said the organizers had to use a closed circuit camera to monitor compliance with physical distance and mask norms in the crowd.
Also advises people to maintain a six-foot distance in public places.
“The use of facial cover or mask is mandatory.
All breathing etiquette must be followed up by the population.
This involves strict practice to cover the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing with a network or handkerchief or elbow remains and remove the used network correctly.
Spit must be strictly prohibited Public places, “reading advisers.
In addition, all religious places must follow the practice without touch.