Chandigarh: More than one of two Covid deaths added to the punjab count in the last 28 days was the victim that occurred in recent months and not reported.
Punjab has struggled, especially during the second wave, in maintaining accurate daily deaths, forcing him to make additions later after data reconciliation.
The addition of old death is one reason why the state mortality rate does not go down, despite falling in the number of daily deaths.
Reconciliation exercises are being carried out over the past few months and between August 1 and 28, the addition of unreaded long deaths was carried out in 15 days.
73 deaths recorded in August, 38 did not log in before; The highest number of eight unexpected deaths was added to 6 and 12 August while three were added to 9 and 11 August.
At 2.7%, Punjab had the highest death rate of Covid cases in the countryside, in July, 90 unexpected deaths were included in the monthly count of 241 and from 1,502 deaths reported in June, 170 are late entries.
Mohali, Amritsar, Mansa and Nawanshahr are among districts where the majority of deaths are not reported to have been added by health authorities.
Explain the reason for reverse death added to the state count, Punjab Covid Nodal Officer Dr.
Rajesh Bhaskar said, “There are strict norms that must be followed to record every death.
Health authorities at the district level must match all records before creating entries, causing delays in Some cases.
“However, he ruled out the possibility of lack of reporting, said,” If we have to hide or report death, why do we add long death after data reconciliation? ” To speed up the process, the Ministry of Health has ratified a private hospital to directly upload details of patients who give up on the virus in the Cova portal.
Private hospitals have also been directed to share the earliest records.
Punjab has a 2.7% highest case mortality rate in the country against the national number 1.3 while his death per million populations are in 545 against 325 levels throughout India.
Kerala, which has the highest number of nearly 2 lakh active cases in this country, has a mortality rate of only 0.5%.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 16,364 people lost their lives from 6.00.463 infected.