– Shyam Sood
Rajouri, April 14: Avoiding masks, rush in the markets, large crowd in the functions organised both by the civilians and the district administration, etc have once again resulted in the steep rise in Corona positive cases in Rajouri district.
76 persons were tested positive during the last two weeks and among these more than 14 are symptomatic and are in-hospital isolation at Rajouri (9) and & other places.
The infection spread after some persons from the UK, Saudi Arab and other parts of the country, including students, returned to Rajouri district and came in contacts with their family members, friends & others before testing positive.
After aggressive sampling/ testing of their contacts, the number of active cases in Rajouri district has reached 90 till Wednesday and increasing day by day.
With a daily increase in positive cases, the administration has started taking some tough measures, including a fine for not wearing masks, awareness about deadly disease/vaccination re-functioning of Covid care Centers (CCC) etc.
“Initially, some Covid Care Centers (CCCs) including at MCH hospital and at Girls hostel Nagrota will be made functional. One CCC in each Health Block will also be made functional to meet an emergency” said CMO.
As per circular issued by Deputy Commissioner today, the CCCs earlier established at Mother & Child Care (MCH) at Rajouri, Girls hostel at Mera Nagrota, Girls hostel at Planger(Thanmandi), Girls hostel at Kalkaot, Jawahar Lal Nehru Vidyalaya (Kotranka) and Banquet Hall in an Ashram at Sunderbani will initially, be re-activated & for that committees have been constituted.
Till Tuesdays 50078 beneficiaries, including more than 45 years, Front Line Workers (FLWs), Health Care Workers (HCWs) have been vaccinated in the district since Jaguar 16.
Out of 89 active cases, 15 are in hospital quarantine, 9 are hospital isolation & 65 in-home isolation.
Out of 3982 Active cases tested in the district till today, 3837 have recovered while 56 died
