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Covid: going "From Bad To Worse," Punjab not testing enough- Centre

The Covid situation in India has been becoming "bad to worse over the last few weeks," the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday in New Delhi. The ministry hit out at the Punjab government over the spike in Covid cases in the state. The Centre said the state has neither been able to test adequate number of people for Covid-19, nor is it being able to isolate the infected people. Addressing a press conference on India's Covid-19 situation, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said Punjab currently has 24,143 active Covid-19 cases.

"In February, the average number of daily cases in Punjab was 240. Now this number has risen to 2,742 cases per day. This shows that adequate number of tests are not being done, nor are they (state government) able to promptly track and isolate infected people," Rajesh Bhushan said. Punjab is among the top five states that have shown a high case positive rate over the past one month. According to the data put out by Union health ministry on Tuesday, Punjab has a case positivity rate of 8.82 per cent against the national average of 5.5 per cent.

The ministry also said the presence of foreign mutant variants of the virus is low. Of the 11,064 genome samples sequenced in 10 national laboratories, the scientists have found 807 cases of the UK variant, 47 South African variant and one of the Brazilian variant so far. In Maharashtra, the weekly case positive rate is 23 per cent, in Chhattisgarh it is 8.24 per cent and 7.82 per cent in Madhya Pradesh. Speaking about the surge in Covid-19 cases in India, Rajesh Bhushan said India's Covid-19 case tally started rising in July last year and reached its peak in mid-September. "There was regular continuous decline in Covid-19 cases after mid-September until mid-February when the cases rising again."

The following are the districts with the highest number of active cases:

  • Pune: 58,475
  • Mumbai: 46,248
  • Nagpur: 45,322
  • Thane: 35,264
  • Nashik: 26,553
  • Aurangabad: 21,282
  • Bengaluru urban: 16,259
  • Nanded: 15,171
  • Delhi: 8,032
  • Ahmednagar: 7,952

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