People from 85 different areas of the city tested positive, and among those Malviya Nagar reported 70 cases, which are highest from an area in the city. Doctors suspect that the virus is spreading fast and infecting people at an increased pace.
Long queues are seen at the government’s centres across the city of those who had come for get their tests done. The number of samples collected in the city reached to 57,718 in one week (from April 8-14).
This is high time that people continue using face masks, follow social distancing and follow guidelines issued by the Centre and state to curb the spread of the virus, the health department appealed. “If we continued to be careless, the facilities for treatment for Covid will fall short,” said health minister Raghu Sharma.
The hospitals are witnessing more admissions for Covid treatment in comparison to March. “Daily, over 100 patients are getting admitted to our hospital. Patients are coming with pattern of pneumonia and out of those almost half of them require oxygen support,” said Dr Ajit Singh, superintendent, dedicated Covid-19 RUHS hospital, where over 550 beds are already occupied.
Almost a month ago (from March 11-17), the city had reported 303 new infections and no death was reported. But, since then the situation continued to change and the cases continued to increase every week. From April 8-14, in just seven days, the city reported 6,005 new infections and 19 people lost their lives.
From March 11 to April 7, only six people died of Covid in the state, but in past seven days, the figure of deaths increased significantly. Areas such as Malviya Nagar, Vaishali Nagar, Jhotwara, Sodala, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Pratapnagar, Jagatpura, Shastri Nagar and Mansarovar, which were worst affected due to Covid-19 in the first wave, are worst-affected in the second wave too.
