Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 10
As Covid cases have crossed the 5,000 mark in the state today, courtesy a sharp spike in Gurugram, Faridabad and other NCR towns, the Haryana Government is now taking not it merely as a public health emergency, but a situation for management at several fronts.
The number of Covid-positive cases today reached 5,579 in Haryana and the state is now ahead of Bihar which has a virus load of 5,459 cases.
With over 3,700 positive cases of Covid reported in the nine days of this month and over 2,600 of these coming from Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonepat alone, the state government has now decided for a shift in its strategy to deal with the situation.
“The Covid outbreak has no longer remained a public health emergency for us. It is more of a management job now. The situation warrants management at several fronts. The management of the spread of disease and management of patients, of course, are still top priorities. But at the same time, it is the management of people, of beds, of sampling and also of communication that is the need of the hour,” said Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Haryana.
He said that with a number of young officers at its disposal, the state government is committed to managing all these fronts effectively so that on the one hand, the outbreak of the virus could be contained while on the other, the resources could be managed well for those getting infected.
“Hospital beds are for those who actually need them. Those with mild symptoms or no symptoms are being home-quarantined or being sent to government or private isolation facilities as per the people’s choice,” he said.
He said Gurugram — from where the maximum cases are being reported — has been attached to three medical colleges, though several people from the millennium city prefer to get treatment from private hospitals too.
Arora said that as the figures suggest, the spike in Haryana is largely because of the unusually high number of cases coming from Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat and other areas close to Delhi where the Covid situation is already grim.
“Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonepat are almost an extension of Delhi and after opening of activities in Unlock 1.0, it is almost impossible to contain the outbreak of the virus in these areas. People have been travelling to Delhi for their jobs as well as for business activities and meeting others, some of whom could be asymptomatic patients spreading the disease,” the ACS said.
Arora, however, stopped short of terming the steep spike of cases in the NCR region as community spread.
“Community spread is when it becomes impossible to trace from where one has been infected. But in a large majority of people in the NCR, people have contracted the disease from Delhi,” he said.
Meanwhile, the number of active case in Haryana today is 3,339 with 52 people succumbing to the virus and 1,807 discharged after recovery.
Forty-three of these active cases are in a critical condition with 30 on oxygen support and 13 on ventilator in various government and private hospitals, according to government’s media bulletin.
Officers to visit districts
The state government has deputed senior officers to visit the districts for a minimum of two days and two nights to supervise and review the current arrangements and to plan the future arrangements required to be put in place based on the analysis of the rate of spread of Covid in the state.
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