CHANDIGARH: The next Covid-19 wave that has now begun showing signs of letting up in Punjab — has struck the country’s rural regions tougher than the very first wave this past year. The general state-wise rural-urban district discuss in fresh instances suggests the rural penetration has risen, whereas the share of metropolitan regions has fallen during the next wave. Though the rural regions accounted for 40.2percent in the everyday cases throughout the initial peak that had struck the nation in September this past year. But during the next wave, the percent share travelled up to 42.2percent in April and additional shot around 45.3percent in May. In spite of the tendency in the insides, the talk of metropolitan areas from the daily caseload dropped from 59.8percent in September 2020 to 57.8percent in April and 54.7percent in May. Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Hoshiarpur, Sangrur, Nawanshahr, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur — districts with over 60 percent of the inhabitants living in rural areas — are hit hardest by the virus in the past two weeks. Until the week ending May 23, Bathinda had the maximum positivity of 13.9percent in the nation. These districts are getting a case fatality rate greater than the country’s average of 2.46. Sangrur has surfaced as a subject with the maximum passing rate of 7.1%, followed closely by Nawanshahr, in which 5 percent of total contaminated patients perished at a six-month interval. Gurdaspur listed a departure rate of 4.2percent while for each 100 confirmed cases, four died in Bathinda and Gurdaspur. In this period of time, Bathinda captured the maximum amount of 154 deaths while 95 people died in Sangrur. To control the spread of this virus from rural places, the government has begun screening individuals residing in rural regions throughout the country for early detection and isolation of those contaminated. Approximately 25 lakh families, such as a population of 92 lakh are screened from the health workers. Acknowledging the battle available, Punjab health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that the government is taking every possible measure to restrain the spread of this virus. “Surveillance was raised from the rural belt,” said Sidhu, urging individuals to collaborate together with all the teams of their health area.