The district is well prepared to face third wave of Corona said ,deputy commissioner Sandeep Singh on Friday while interacting with media persons here today.
Though number of active cases is on rise with the total number of active cases reported till Thursday stood at 777 steps for tests , home isolation and hospitalisation also is on, people are also getting cured. The district has reported two deaths during current wave, one each at a government and private hospital, he informed.
He said asymptotic persons would be given home isolation keeping in view available health and other facilities. Persons willing to remain in home isolation would have to upload relevant documents on Himmat App then only permission would be granted. Till date 90 persons have applied for permission of home isolation. He claimed that there is no dearth of oxygen as well as oxygen supported beds and ventilators supported beds both in government as well as in private hospital.Oxygen plants are operative at all government , corporate and private hospitals in district, he said.. Giving details of vaccination he said , out of the targeted 19.62 lakhs 18+population 14.32 lakhs were administered first dose and 8.65 were given second dose.
The private and corporate hospitals in district have been roped in for completing second dose target besides others. Those hospitals would be supplied free vaccines for common man and they just would have to provide logistic support for vaccination, he said. Our target is to vaccinate 14,000 persons in a day to meet January 15 target set by government, he added.
To a query he said four cantonment zones have been created in view of the high number of positive cases found in those clusters. More such zones are to be announced in due course, he said. He said steps for making people wear masks have been initiated as per the government guideline.