Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 6
The Health Ministry sent a core team to Punjab and Chandigarh today, which have seen an increase in cases.
The teams will help improve the containment, surveillance, testing and clinical management of Covid patients to reduce mortality, as well as provide guidance on timely diagnosis and follow-up. The teams will remain stationed in the state and the UT for 10 days.
The Punjab team consists of PGI (Chandigarh) community medicine expert JS Thakur and the deputy director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Akshay Kumar. The Chandigarh team includes PGI physician PVN Laxmi and Sahil Goel of the NCDC.
Of the total 63,473 Covid cases in Punjab, 15,731 are active. The state has seen 1,862 deaths and tests per million stand at 37,546 (India’s average is 34,593.1). At 4.97 percent, Punjab’s positivity rate is on the lowest cumulative spectrum.
Of the total of 5,763 cases in Chandigarh, 2,250 are active. Tests per million and cumulative positivity in UT are 33,434 and 16 percent, respectively.
New concern relapses, second case surfaces
Covid reinfection is emerging as a new area of concern as Bengaluru reported the relapse of the viral infection on Sunday just three days after Mumbai saw a similar case. A private hospital in Bangalore confirmed Covid reinfection in a 27-year-old woman who had tested positive in July and had been discharged after recovering. On September 3, a Mumbai doctor tested positive for the second time in a month.
Meanwhile, India on Sunday recorded a record 90,632 daily infections, surpassing Brazil to become the second worst-affected nation by Covid in the world. TNS
