Haryana is fast inching towards tiding over the severity of the second wave of Covid-19
Haryana is fast inching towards tiding over the severity of the second wave of Covid-19 as the recovery rate has touched almost 94 per cent.
- Haryana inching towards decimating 2nd Covid wave
- Chandigarh, May 24 – Haryana is fast inching towards tiding over the severity of the second wave of Covid-19 as the recovery rate has touched almost 94 per cent. While the pandemic is largely in control in rural areas, in urban pockets there has been a perceptible decline in the number of new cases.
- Chief Minister Manohar Lal, who has been monitoring the day-to-day situation personally, has kept the administration on its toes with the singular aim of building adequate health infrastructure and most importantly within a given time-frame.
- Haryana touched a big milestone by setting up two 500-bed Covid hospitals in Panipat and Hisar within a short span of 2-3 weeks.
- In 1310 villages in the state a provision for more than 18,000 beds has been made in isolation centres.
- The isolation centres have been equipped with basic medical facilities like thermometre, BP instruments, oximeters etc. In these isolation centres so far 64507 people have been put to Covid test out of which 2704 were found positive whereas 40598 were given basic treatment.
- Simultaneously, the Test, Track and Treat campaign launched in the rural areas this month has started yielding quick positive results. About 8000 multidisciplinary teams have been constituted to conduct door-to-door survey and examine more than 40 lakh families in villages.
- The teams have so far covered 4559 villages and have examined more than 64 lakh members of 14.46 lakh families.
- The contribution of the Haryana police also came around as they launched a helpline dial 112 and more than 440 Innova cars were converted into ambulances.
- In the entire state at present 15001 oxygen beds, 5410 ventilators/ICU beds have been in operation. In the entire 22 districts in 526 Covid Care Centres more than 65,000 beds have been in place.
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