Going from worst to worst, vaccinate in more than 45 surge districts in 2 weeks: Center

With the second wave of Kovid-19 cases reported in many parts of the country, the Center on Tuesday warned that the situation was getting “worse than worse” and that 100-year-olds above the age of 45 would receive 100 percent vaccination coverage from the states. Has requested. Increase in districts within the next two weeks. The government will end the third phase of its vaccination campaign from April 1 to cover all those above 45 years. It was informed that 90 percent of Kovid related deaths in the country fall in the category of those above 45 years of age. “The rapid growth of all cases and cases with high caseload should ensure 100% saturation vaccination of the priority age group of 45 years.” Years and up in the coming two weeks.

Any decency at any level, at this level, would be a huge cost, “Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written in a letter to all states and union territories. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said that six states – Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat – continue to report an increase in daily cases and new cases accounted for 78.56 percent of the total. “The situation is getting worse and worse. There is a serious cause for concern. In some states, in particular, there is a large cause for concern. But no state can be complacent. What the trend shows is that the virus is still very active and can sneak into our defense

. And when we think that we have found ways to control the virus, it comes back. The active cases, which were above one lakh, have now gone up to 5.4 lakhs. Two-thirds are in a special situation. But the fact is that this is a five-time increase, “Dr. VK Paul, Who heads the country’s Kovid task force said. Meanwhile, Bhushan said the average positivity rate in Maharashtra was 23.44 percent as against 5.65 percent nationally during the previous week. Except for Bengaluru and Delhi, all the top ten districts in the country with maximum active cases are from Maharashtra. According to the top health officer, Maharashtra and Punjab continue to be cause for concern. “On 10 February, there were 3,051 daily cases and 32 deaths in Maharashtra.

On 24 March, it accounted for 34,456 daily cases and 118 deaths. This is the extent of the boom in the state. We have to look at this data with a weekly positivity rate of 23.44 percent. This shows that normal health response activities are not taking place in the state. Similarly, Punjab, which was reporting 240 daily cases in the second week of February, 2 on 24 March 742 cases were registered. The state’s weekly positivity rate was 8.82 percent. This shows that Punjab is not doing enough testing.

It also shows that the state is not immediately alienating the people, ”he said. According to the Center, the five states with maximum average positivity rates of the previous week were Maharashtra (23.44 percent), Punjab (8.82 percent), Chhattisgarh (8.24 percent), Madhya Pradesh (7.82 percent), and Tamil Nadu. (2.50 percent). “Weekly data shows how the infection has been spreading in the last few days. There is an urgent need to significantly increase testing in these states. It has to be increased rapidly. Bhushan said that states also need to increase the proportion of RT-PCR tests. Paul warned that the number of deaths had increased fourfold in the last few days. “New cases, which were around 9,000 per day, 68 before yesterday, 000 were. That again is six-seven times the acceleration.

He is very big. We have been proud as a nation that the case fatality rate is low… but with 77 deaths per day, we are now seeing four times that number in the last few days. Obviously, we have to be very cautious. Not only in the states where the fighting is raging, but in every state of the country, ”said Paul. “Without effective contact tracing, without quarantining contacts, and, wherever a group of cases appear, we allow transmission chains to be activated, without creating zones of control,” said Paul. . Bhushan urged the states to increase private sector participation in the vaccination campaign and pointed out that only 16.53 percent of the dose was administered in the region. In your letter, Bhushan asked all states to focus on the reduction in mortality. “Perform an analysis to understand issues related to systems analysis as to why the deaths occurred: whether it was due to late detection (monitoring failure), or late admission (delay in referral), or clinical care in the hospital, ” they wrote. .