The Covid-19 positivity rate in Gurugram district has come down to 1.63 per cent from 34.9 per cent within 32 days. Similarly, the recovery rate has also increased to 98.79 per cent.
The district administration spokesperson said: “In order to break the chain of corona infection, the State Government initially decided to impose a weekend lockdown in nine districts of Haryana, including Gurugram.On April 30, the Government had imposed a weekend lockdown for two days." "The positivity rate of Gurugram was 34.9 per cent on that day and there were 4,435 active cases in 24 hours.
The doubling rate was 23.35 days and the growth rate of corona infection was 3.60 per cent. At that time the recovery rate of the district was 69.76 per cent.
To reduce the rate of this infection, an action plan was prepared as per the guidelines of the State Government," he said.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday around 337 people were cured of Covid-19 while 83 new cases were reported in the district. Also, the number of total active cases in Gurugram district as of now is 1,073 out of which 926 patients are in home isolation.
A total of 7,08,768 people have been administered Covid jabs including 7,544 on Wednesday.
Apart from this, amid the second wave of the Covid pandemic, Narayana Health has announced that it will not charge any service fee for vaccinating people at both its hospitals in the NCR i.e. Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Delhi and Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Gurugram.
The spokesperson said, they will charge only Rs 650 for the Covishield vaccine in the hospitals from June 2 onwards in order to ensure that vaccination takes place on a large scale.
Commander Navneet Bali, Regional Director, Northern India, Narayana Health said: “The pandemic has caused a lot of hardship to society and a majority of the population still waits to be vaccinated, we have decided to not the take service fees from the people. This is our small way of fulfilling our commitment towards the nation’s goal of vaccinating maximum beneficiaries. We are confident that everyone who is eligible for it will get vaccinated at the earliest.”
He further added that they were likely to vaccinate the underprivileged sections of society through a joint initiative with 'Give India Foundation.’