Despite a steady increase in corona virus cases over the last month, the district administration of Gurugram claimed that the fatality rate till Wednesday has come down from 0.85% to 0.78% in the district.
“Intensive testing and contact tracing campaign is being carried out by the health department to identify corona infected patients in the district so that the infection does not spread to more people. Timely identification and treatment of such patients helps mortality rate is now coming down in the district,” Amit Khatri, deputy commissioner, Gurugram said.
The deputy commissioner also informed that more than 900 camps have been set up at different places for testing in the district, in which free trials have been done for the visitors.
"People who have symptoms of corona infection can go to these camps and get their test done for free. Area wise schedule has been prepared for testing in the district. Apart from this, individuals can also get their test done by going to the RT-PCR method in the civil hospital in Gurugram," Khatri said.
He said that due to the cooperation of the health department and the residents of the district, awareness has also been increased in people about corona infection.
"Necessary information about prevention of corona infection is also being shared by the district administration with the people," Khatri added.
Apart from this, the health official said that, the Department of AYUSH is also regularly distributing immunity kits to the people. So far, more than 2 lakh 11 thousand immunity kits have been distributed in the district. In areas where more cases of corona infection are reported, immunity booster kits are distributed door-to-door by the team of AYUSH department.
Meanwhile,the district health department detected 269 fresh infections in the district on Wednesday. The Covid-19 tally in Gurugram rose to 24,320 according to a daily health bulletin.
One more patient infected with coronavirus died on Wednesday in Gurugram. A total of 188 persons in the district have lost their lives to the dreaded virus to date.
There are a total of 2,327 active Covid cases in Gurugram. A total of 21,805 people have been cured and discharged after recovery.
The health department said out of 188 deaths 136 died due to co-morbidities and the remaining 52 without co-morbidity.