Ranchi: The state government will not impose a new sidewalk or introduce restrictions to regulate the crowd / meeting before Christmas and New Year, Minister of Health Banna Gupta said on Thursday.
Gupta, who also holds a disaster management portfolio, said, “We do not plan to introduce fresh sidewalks or impose restrictions for the celebration of Christmas and New Year.
But we will remain vigilant and whatever the consultation issued by the government as part of his opening guidelines in front of Diwali will Stay like that.
“Before Diwali in November, the government has issued a series of key-unlock guidelines, as part of where all commercial and social activities are given to green signals and in-people are allowed to continue for all students, except those in the main part .
Amid the concern of the Omicron variant, Delhi has banned Christmas / New Year Bash.
When asked, said Gupta, “Jharkhand hasn’t detected Omicron’s case.
But we have increased Covid testing at all of our transit points and we also work to improve our medical infrastructure.
The covid situation as a whole is controlled.” While no Omicron case has been reported in Jharkhand So far, Kaseload is active in the country once again watched the wave.
The total number of Jharkhand active cases was established in 201, in accordance with the Covid bulletin Wednesday night, which doubled compared to the number four weeks ago.
With 51 cases on Wednesday night, the country reported the biggest surge in the last few weeks and Ranchi itself contributed 25 new infections.
The authorities have not confirmed whether the surge in recent cases has a trace of Omicron variant because the results of the genome sequencing have not arrived from the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) in Bhubaneswar.
Three weeks ago, the state has sent more than a dozen covid patient samples to ILS to find out whether the new variant is responsible for the case surge.
When asked, Gupta said the genome machine would be arranged immediately at Jharkhand.
He added, “Now our focus is on inoculation drive and we plan to vaccinate as many benefits as possible and we do it through various methods.
We have held a vaccination drive throughout the month in all districts.” From around 2.41 Crore Recipients, Dosage Coverage The first country is 74% while the second dose is 43%.
While agreeing that there are many challenges when it comes to encouraging coverage of vaccination, Gupta says that one reason for the large number of those who take the second dose is because the beneficiaries have migrated to another place.
He urged the United States to consider providing a booster dose and vaccinated people under 18 years to prevent other waves from Covid-19 in the country.