Jaipur: To intensify covid testing in the state, random sampling will be carried out at the train station, buses, schools, colleges and crowded places.
The Ministry of Health has directed its official to increase the RT-PCR test to 1 lakh per day.
At present, daily testing is only 28,000 compared to the test capacity of 1 lakh 45 thousand samples every day.
Directions have been spent to conduct a door-to-door survey and Covid-19 test patients who visit hospitals with diseases such as influenza.
While officials in Bharatpur Regency were drawn not to carry out Covid-19 testing effectively.
“When reviewing the testing and sampling of Covid-19, it was found that the 10 population of the lakh, only 57 samples were drawn in Bharatpur.
Officials have been directed to increase sampling for Covid-19 testing,” said a health department official.
While the country has witnessed a sudden leap in omicron cases, the Chief Minister of Ashok Gehlot stated the need for a booster dose for 60+ health care workers and frontline workers.
He also stated the need for children’s vaccination and population below 18.
In a letter written to PM, Gehlot said that as allegedly by health experts, the threat of third wave which rose largely based on the increase in Covid-19 cases of omicron.
In such situations, it is necessary to vaccinate health workers, frontline workers, and 60+ populations with a booster dose.
People like it can be given a booster shot because most of them have taken the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine six months ago.