Ludhiana News
As Sharma spoke to The Indian Express on Thursday, Ludhiana hospitals had reported over 1,800 deaths out of which around 300 were from outside the district.
Hussan Lal, principal secretary, health, said that against the order of 30 lakh doses placed with SII, the state received 1 lakh doses Saturday.
Whiles unions had given a call ‘lockdown todo, bazar kholo’, but hardly any shops opened during the protest time. Farmer unions were seen staging protests in closed market places.
Curfew passes need to be issued by administration for office employees commuting on vehicles other than bicycles. Banks, government offices will operate with 50 per cent strength and will be closed on weekends.
The state government has identified construction workers, teachers, government employees and those with co-morbidities as high-risk individuals for priority vaccination in the 18-44 group.
Police said that teams were searching for more vials and had not identified any suspects in the case yet.
Private hospitals in Punjab, in contrast, have vaccinated only 1,530 people in this age group.
With 182 fresh deaths, the state’s Covid fatality toll touched 9,825 on Wednesday, with the case fatality rate (CFR) hovering around the 2.41% mark, higher than the national CFR of 1.09%.
Amid vaccine shortage, just 15k doses given on the day; 2 lakh fresh doses received from Centre for 45+
Apart from this, the education department has also developed the Punjab Educare app, through which teachers can upload their lectures.
The diversity in the pool of people testing positive across social and economic strata is proof positive that the virus is sparing no one.
The maximum number of cases was recorded in Ludhiana (1,404), SAS Nagar (1,045), Jalandhar (725), Patiala (602) and Bathinda (582). With this, the total infections in the state reached 3,85,270 and total active cases in Punjab stands at 60,108.
With this, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state reached 3,77,990, while the total number of active cases are 58,229.
Urging Ludhiana residents to be cautious and to stay at home, Sharma said that the city produces 1,800 cylinders a day, while the consumption is 2800 cylinders.
The state needs at least 2 lakh doses of Covaxin to provide the second dose to those beneficiaries who have already been vaccinated with its first dose.
He received a bullet injury in the right side of the head. He was rushed to Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) where he died while undergoing treatment.
Sidhu said, “We are just hand-to-mouth in terms of oxygen supply to various hospitals of Punjab. We get around 105 MT oxygen from other states, which is coming in limited quantities. We are trying our best.”
Punjab’s case fatality rate (CFR) now stands at 2.44%, higher than the national CFR of 1.11%.
Police said that the dispute happened after ASI Janak Raj was upset as he was not invited for his niece’s wedding which was scheduled for Thursday.
As Covid cases started surging in March, schools were declared closed for students on March 12 but teachers were told to report as usual.
However, the highest single-day Covid toll in Punjab, since the pandemic began, was recorded on September 2 last year when 106 persons died in 24 hours.
With 76 fresh deaths Friday, the Covid toll in Punjab reached 8,264 and Punjab’s case fatality rate (CFR) has reached 2.53 per cent, still higher than the national CFR of 1.15 per cent.
According to the varsity officials, the theft took place on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday and they informed the police Monday. However, the police claimed that PAU officials informed them only on Wednesday.
In testing too, Punjab touched a new high Thursday with 60,432 tests conducted.
Asking the CM to step out of his farmhouse and address the problems being faced by farmers, Sukhbir said Capt should also direct senior officers to visit all mandis and remove shortcomings.