Coronavirus | Adopt scientific method of testing, says Monitoring Officer in Cuddalore

District COVID-19 Monitoring officer Gagandeep Singh Bedi has appealed to the folks to stringently adhere to the COVID-19 protocol, like obligatory sporting of masks and sustaining bodily distancing on a war-footing, to interrupt the chain of transmission in Cuddalore.

Addressing media individuals after a overview assembly in Cuddalore on Thursday, he stated that a number of States together with Tamil Nadu had been witnessing an increase in the quantity of optimistic circumstances.

Mr. Bedi stated that there was a lapse in masks sporting. The district administration and the police division ought to slap fines to make sure everyone wears a masks. About 9.1 % of folks aged above 45 years have been vaccinated in Cuddalore district to this point. The Health Department also needs to enhance the share cowl of vaccinated beneficiaries since 90 % of folks aged above 45 years in the district had been but to be vaccinated, he stated.

Mr. Bedi urged folks aged above 45 years to come back ahead and get themselves vaccinated on the nearest major well being centres, authorities hospitals and particular camps of the well being division in the following 10-15 days.

Mr. Bedi additionally directed the district administration to undertake a scientific method of testing by fever camps. Contact tracing of all those that might need been affected is highly-needed to interrupt the chain, he stated.

Around 3,000 beds have been stored prepared in authorities hospitals and different hospitals and the mattress power may very well be elevated to eight,000 to 10,000 primarily based on the demand, he stated. There can be satisfactory inventory of medicines, testing kits and oxygen amenities at hospitals for treating COVID-19 sufferers, he added.

Collector Chandra Sekhar Sakhamuri and Superintendent of Police M. Sree Abhinav had been current.