Coronavirus in India update: As India is witnessing a second wave of COVID-19, Maharashtra, Punjab and Chhattisgarh look to be at the centre of this surge as they have been reporting the highest quantity of deaths connected to coronavirus infections in the nation. Amid this, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare sent central teams to the surge districts in these 3 states, according to a report in The Indian Express. The teams have now identified the essential troubles present there. In Maharashtra, 3 districts are witnessing extremely higher hospital occupancy, although a further 3 districts have troubles concerning oxygen provide. Apart from this, in two districts, the teams have identified malfunctioning ventilators.
Meanwhile, in the northern state of Punjab, two districts do not have devoted COVID-19 hospitals, although 3 districts are witnessing a shortage of healthcare workers, and one other district does not have a lab for RT-PCR testing.
Chhattisgarh is witnessing a shortage of RT-PCR testing in 3 of the districts, although there is restricted availability of oxygen cylinders in the capital city. Meanwhile, higher hospital occupancy prices are prevalent in 4 districts.
The Centre had sent the unique teams final week on the path of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The second wave of COVID-19 has been preserving a considerably speedy trajectory than the 1st one that India saw final year and the nation has been reporting the highest quantity of every day situations it has ever noticed for the previous one week. Amid this, the quantity of active situations in the nation has also reached 12,01,009 as of Monday morning, and this is the highest ever. The Union Health Ministry has been preserving that Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala are cumulatively accounted for practically 71% of the total active situations in the nation, with Maharashtra alone housing 48.57% of the total active situations in India.
Daily deaths are also on a rise, with the nation getting reported 904 deaths in the previous 24 hours, a considerable improve of 839 deaths witnessed the day prior to that. Of these 904 deaths, Maharashtra is accountable for 349 fatalities, the maximum of all the states. Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh reported 122 deaths, UP reported 67, Punjab reported 59 and Gujarat accounted for 54, according to the information released by the Health Ministry on Monday.
Meanwhile, UP and Gujarat are also emerging as causes of concern. While UP has been largely conducting the RT-PCR for testing, the testing numbers themselves have fallen in the state, the report mentioned. However, this challenge has been flagged by the Centre to state officials, who would now be ramping up the testing, to bring it to the higher levels it had been preserving in the course of the surge in 2020.
Meanwhile, Gujarat’s Surat has been visited by 3 teams and these teams have looked at the gaps the district has in terms of response and help to wellness authorities in the course of this predicament. Surat is a concern, the report stated, simply because the RT-PCR testing in the district is rather low, and it had also failed to ramp up testing in the course of the earlier surge final year.