PUDUCHERRY: The weekly part of the Covid-19 infection in the Union Puducherry area stands at 25.3%, which is almost doubled from the national average (12.84%).
Of the 24,824 samples tested in the last seven days, 6,272 positive return samples, which meant that one in every four samples was tested positive for infection.
According to statistics released by the health of the Union and the Ministry of Family Welfare, the weekly level of infection in the Puducherry reached 26.9%, in 18%, MAHE at 11.5% and Yanam at 3.2%.
Sexy public health experts argue that the failure of the government and people in participating in the right Covid-19 behavior during the new year celebration in public places after the government loosens restrictions leading to Covid-19 cases in their territory.
The restrictions imposed by the New Year post government include 50% seating capacity in public transportation between districts and between districts, hotels, bars and restaurants, malls and multiplex remains on paper and there is no right mechanism to monitor whether public and private.
The company follows the norm.
However, Director (Health and Family Welfare Services) G Sriramalu associated a trend surge in a national trend.
“There is a surge in the number of cases nationally.
We can witness the peak of this wave in Puducherry at the end of January, and the number of cases can be dipped from February first week.
Cases reported in the last few days light with some hospitalization and death when compared to the first wave and Second.
The health directorate has taken all prevention steps to overcome the number of Covid-19 cases that soar and expand the appropriate care to the patient, “Sriramalu said.
Territory has not sent samples to test omicron infection variants in recent days.
“It takes 15 to 20 days to get test results for the Omicron variant and when the patient recovers,” he said, adding more than 30 doctors and health workers has been tested so far.
The number of samples tested in the region drastically fell to less than half on Saturday compared to the previous day.
The health care authority, which tested 5,167 samples on Friday, was tested 2,344 samples only on Saturday.
“People don’t advance to take the test on a pongal day.
The scenario will continue for the next two days and hopefully from Monday the daily test will cross 5,000,” he said.
Territory reported 1,213 fresh Covid-19 cases even when 84 patients recovered in the last 24 hours ended at 10 am on Saturday took the total active case to 6,785.
From them, 6,662 were under isolation and home care while the remaining 123 was in the hospital.
The Puducherry head office reported maximum new cases with 1,100 followed by Karaikan (93), Mahe (17) and Yanam (3).
The Puducherry head office has a maximum active case with 5962 followed by Karaikan (680), MAHE 107 and Yanam (36).
A 88-year-old man and a 68-year-old man in Mahe died because the infection took the death toll to 1,886.
Puducherry headquarters have maximum death with 1,471 followed by Karaikan (252), Yanam (109) and MAHE (54).
Infection mortality rate reached 1.4%, which was higher than the national average of 1.3%.
This area has so far reported 1.36 lakh cases where 1.27 lakh patients recovered, registering the recovery rate of 93.7%, which is less than the national average of 94.8%.