Chandigarh: With Punjab breathing is easy because Covid-19 lower cases than a few months ago, the country seems to be loose on contact searches – the size of the main public health for outbreaks of infectious diseases – and tracking positive cases, especially in the high-risk festival season .
This, despite the commemoration of the central government to weakness in complying with the Covid protocol during the festival season because it can cause the resurrection of Coronavirus novel cases.
After maintaining a decent ratio to track more than 22 contacts per case for most of October, the tracking rate fell below 10 and touched as low as 6.35 per case – 997 contacts traced in 157 cases – at the end of the month – at the end of the month more than Four times less than the 30 target set by the state government.
Tracing Contacts – The process identifies the source of infection and tracking of people filled with patients before testing positive – considered the key to disturbing the transmission chain.
During the assessment period, new cases were reported in 18 districts where 10 districts even failed to match the average search of the country.
Bathinda appeared at the bottom of the list with a search record of 0.8 contacts per case, 1.4 contacts per case was tracked in Pathankot, 1.7 in Hoshiarpur, 3.9 in Ropar, 4.6 in Mohali, 5 each in Nawanshahr and Faridkot, 5 , 5 in Moga and 6 in Fatehgarh Sahib.
Fazilka, Jalandhar, Muktsar Patiala, Ludhiana, Sangrur and Amritsar track contacts in the range of 13 to 6.9 per case.
Data on the State Health Department revealed that the percentage of infected contacts from positive cases reached 36.8%.
Wise analysis of districts from the status of the tested contact shows that 33.3% of close contact in Faridkot was found positively, 18.2% in Ludhiana, 18% in Amritsar, 17.6% in Fazilka, 17.3% in Jalandhar and 12, 5% in Bathinda.
Punjab Covid-19 Nodal Officer Dr.
Rajesh Bhaskar associated a decrease in search ratio to the celebration season and field staff could not update data on online portals due to technical problems.
He further said that instructions have been spent for staff to ensure that the latest data uploaded online and delayed districts have been asked to increase the case search.
Decrease in detention zones: Only five micro detention zones, which refer to areas that have 5 to 14 cases, have been abandoned in Punjab.
At present, the country does not have a large outbreak area, which has 15 cases or more.
The trend pointed to new cases did not come in groups.
Pb: in pre-diwali wk, contact contacts dropped to 6.35 / case
