Coronavirus | Rural spread a reality, says Centre
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Calls for better primary healthcare, increased RAT, and tele-consultation of patients .
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Calls for better primary healthcare, increased RAT, and tele-consultation of patients .
COVID’s ingress is now being seen in peri-urban, rural and tribal areas as well, the Health Ministry admitted on Sunday, weeks after a rising number of cases have been reported from rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat among other States.
The Ministry in its document “SOP on COVID-19 Containment and Management in Peri-urban, Rural and Tribal areas” said there is a need to enable communities, strengthen primary level healthcare infrastructure at all levels to intensify COVID-19 response in these new areas, while continuing to provide other essential health services.
Tea estate shut in Assam after 198 test positive
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Lockdown in Meghalaya, including Shillong, till May 10
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Lockdown in Meghalaya, including Shillong, till May 10
Local authorities have closed a tea estate in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh district after 198 workers and members of their families tested positive for COVID-19.
The Zaloni Tea Estate was declared a containment zone on Wednesday. District Surveillance Officer of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Nabajyoti Gogoi said the cases were reported over the past 48 hours. “The patients have been kept at the tea garden hospital and in some empty houses within the estate. Health officials have been vaccinating other workers of the garden and their family members who tested negative,” he said. About 60 other cases were also reported from two adjoining tea estates. An average of 4,596 people tested positive in the last three days in Assam. The number of cases on May 3 was 4,489 twice th
Nagpur: Rural parts of the district have seen 38 people under 30 years age group die of Covid-19 in March and April this year. This number, though higher than 23 of this age group who died in August-September last year, which was peak of the first wave, is substantially lower in percentage terms.
As per data from Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), 3.46% of total 1,098 deceased were below 30 years in March and April (second wave). The comparable figure forthis age group in peak of first wave was 5.21% of total 441 who died then. However, it was just one (1.22%) of 82 deaths in January and February that can be considered typical months of first wave. Of total fatalities, 59.26% deaths were recorded in last two months alone.
Nagaland s COVID-19 tally crossed the 13,000-mark as the state reported its highest single-day spike of 114 new cases in the last 24 hours, Health Minister S Pangnyu Phom said. The fresh infections pushed the caseload of the northeastern state to 13,003, he said. The death toll rose to 98 after three more COVID-19 patients from Dimapur died during the period, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme s State Nodal Officer Dr Nyanthung Kikon said. Of the fresh cases, 101 were reported from Dimapur, four from Kohima, seven from Phek and two from Mokokchung , the minister said.
Nagaland now has 555 active cases, while 12,117 people have so far recovered from the disease and 233 patients have migrated to other states.
Mizoram has not reported any case of new COVID-19 variants till date, an official said on Friday. The Mizoram government has sent 326 samples of COVID- 19 infected positive patients to National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) in West Bengal for genome sequencing, state spokesperson for COVID-19 Dr Pachuau Lalmalsawma. The samples were sent between December, 2020 and April this year, he said. Of the 326 samples, results of 69 samples have been received and all of them tested negative for new variants of COVID-19, Pachuau told PTI. He said that the results of the remaining samples are awaited.
Mizoram has so far reported 5,220 COVID-19 cases of which 4,600 patients have recovered from the disease.