‘Prepare for protection against 3rd wave’
Yogi says corona situation improving fast, training of doctors and nursing staff in paediatric care to be completed soon
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday that training of human resources should be done while making preparations for protection against the third wave of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh.
Presiding over a meeting of Team-9, constituted for Covid-19 management in the state, he said training of master trainers was in progress. Training of doctors and nursing staff in paediatric care had begun and would be completed soon.
Yogi said there was a consistent improvement in the situation on the corona front and the number of active cases in the state had come down to 28,694. He said 16,44,511 people had recovered and the recovery rate was 97.1 per cent in the state.
Yogi said Uttar Pradesh had set a record of sorts of conducting 5 crore Covid-19 tests. The state had adopted an aggressive policy of testing and tracing from the beginning and the situation was now under control. He said in all 3,31,511 tests had been done in the past 24 hours and 1514 new cases had been reported while 4439 people had been discharged from hospital after recovery.
He said Covid-19 vaccination was running smoothly and UP was on top position in providing vaccine security cover to those in 45 plus and 18 to 44 years age groups. The first dose had been given to 1,51,81,813 people while 35,05,573 had been covered with both the doses. He said the state had thus administered 1,86,87,386 doses of vaccine.
The CM said participation of 18 plus age group in the vaccination campaign launched on June 1 was encouraging in all the 75 districts. As many as 3,42000 people were vaccinated at 5,000 vaccination centres set up for the campaign across the state. But he asked for further improvement in vaccine coverage.
Yogi said vaccination for all the citizens was free and arrangements for online registration had been made to ensure that Covid-19 protocol was followed. He said arrangements for waiting area and observation should be made at the vaccination centres and directed that waiting time should be minimum. He also urged the people to make the vaccination campaign successful by following the Covid-19 protocol.
Yogi said the Covid-19 situation was improving fast and 64 districts were left with less than 600 active cases. He said medical colleges and government hospitals should begin general OPDs in such a situation and added that appointment system in the OPDs may help in checking unnecessary crowd. He also said that emergency services should run round the clock.
The chief minister said relaxation in corona curfew did not mean carelessness or laxity. There were reports of people not wearing masks, not following social distancing and crowding unnecessarily in markets. He said the police should actively work to educate the people and also do patrolling, checking and enforcement work. He said rules about corona curfew should be strictly followed and the police should become active from 6PM to enforce night closure.
Yogi said the steps taken to strike a balance between demand and supply of oxygen had shown good results. The government’s consistent efforts had resulted in ensuring three to four days’ back up of oxygen in medical colleges, with re-fillers. He said 454.7 metric tonnes of oxygen had been distributed in the past 24 hours. Use of oxygen had been allowed for industrial units and should continue.