Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked people to be vigilant and exercise caution during the festival season in view of COVID-19 as NITI Aayog has commended UP for better control of novel coronavirus infection in the state as compared to Delhi and Haryana.
Addressing a high-level review meeting at his official residence here on Monday, the chief minister said that despite the coronavirus cases declining in the state, any negligence or carelessness could be risky and therefore the people should be made aware of prevention from COVID-19 infection.
The chief minister directed officials to arrange better treatment facilities for patients suffering from COVID-19. He said that steps should be taken to further control the novel coronavirus infection.
Yogi also said that meetings should be convened regularly by the district magistrates and the chief medical officers at the Covid hospitals in the morning and at the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) in the evening. He said the measures taken for the control of COVID-19 should be reviewed and further strategy to combat this pandemic should be drawn.
The chief minister said the district authorities should be in regular touch with nursing home operators and Indian Medical Association (IMA) members so that they did not delay in sending the infected patients to Covid hospitals for treatment.
Meanwhile, the NITI Aayog has appreciated UP for containing novel coronavirus when Delhi and Haryana are seeing a steep rise in the number of fresh positive cases.
Principal Secretary (Health) Alok Kumar said here on Monday that as per the NITI Aayog communiqué, the positivity rate in Delhi and Haryana had touched 15 percent but in UP districts near Delhi and Haryana it was below 5 percent.
“The casualty rate in Haryana and Delhi too has increased,” he added.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed all the district magistrates, particularly of four districts where the number of positive cases is rising by over 100 per day, to review the COVID-19 situation twice every day and make arrangements for additional beds in hospitals.
Meanwhile, on Monday, 1,636 new COVID-19 cases were detected while 1,895 novel coronavirus infected people recovered.
There are 22,965 active cases in the state out of which 10,062 are in home isolation.