Active Cases Soar By Over 40% For 3 Days In A Row, Raj Plans 1l Tests Daily | Jaipur News
On Thursday, the state reported 2,656 new Covid cases taking the overall tally to 9,63,109. No death was reported. In Jaipur, 1,439 persons tested positive and active cases rose from 3,246 to 4,445.
Cases in Jaipur were reported from 83 places and addresses of 108 persons were not found. Highest cases were reported from Vaishali Nagar where 83 persons tested positive, followed by Jhotwara (71), Sodala (60), Bani Park (58), Jawahar Nagar (56), Ajmer Road (51), Malviya Nagar (48) and Mansarovar (47).
Highest cases were reported from Jaipur (1439), followed by Jodhpur (360), Alwar (144), Chittorgarh (90), Udaipur (89), Ajmer (87), Bikaner (82) and Bharatpur (79).
The health department held a meeting on Friday headed by secretary (health) Vaibhav Galriya to deal with the emerging third wave.
Galriya directed officials to remain alert for the at least one-and-a-half month. The officials discussed on the availability of medicines for treatment, testing kits, oxygen plants, oxygen concentrators and availability of beds at 332 hospitals.
Galriya said directions had been issued to maintain a stock of five medicine kits, N95 masks, remdesivir injections and other life-saving medicines for next 45 days.
He said 460 oxygen plants installed in the state have started functioning. Apart from that, oxygen concentrators and other such equipment can produce 1,000 metric tonnes of medical oxygen.
In the state, testing has now increased to 58,000 daily. In the coming days, it will be increased to a lakh, when required.
Directions have been issued to officials to ensure rapid antigen tests at primary health centres where the transportation of samples for RTPCR test takes time. Mock drill of ventilators will also be done to check the functioning of new ventilators.
