State cannot afford another lockdown: CM

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has mentioned that vaccination is the one treatment for COVID-19, however the State authorities is going through a extreme constraint in immunising the susceptible individuals attributable to scarcity of vaccine.

The Central authorities was requested to despatch extra doses to broaden the vaccination programme, whereas taking all doable steps to verify the unfold of the virus, the Chief Minister mentioned whereas addressing a video-conference with the District Collectors and Superintendents of Police on COVID-19 administration and vaccination on Friday.

The each day manufacturing of vaccines within the nation stood at seven crore, however the variety of doses was about 23 lakh. “Since the Central government has control over the production and supply of vaccines, the State is asking it to replenish the stocks in order to protect the masses from the pandemic,” Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy mentioned.

Positivity fee

He mentioned whereas the positivity fee was 6.03%, the restoration fee stood at 96.19%. The positivity fee climbed to 7.77% between December 2020 and April 2021. The restoration fee on the nationwide stage was 88.90%.

Of the cumulative variety of 1.55 crore exams finished thus far, 9.37 lakh turned out to be constructive. The an infection and positivity charges have been alarming in Chittoor, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Krishna, Guntur and Nellore districts, he mentioned.

The Chief Minister mentioned the State couldn’t afford to impose lockdown once more attributable to its devastating affect on the economic system.

He referred to as for emphasis on focussed testing (checking if the first contacts of contaminated individuals contracted the virus) and voluntary testing to regulate the pandemic.

Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy noticed that although the positivity fee was excessive in cities and cities, the variety of deaths was extra in villages as sufferers both uncared for their situation, or had no straightforward accessibility to hospitals. This needs to be saved in view and mandatory motion taken, he informed the officers.

‘Ramp up bed strength’

Asking the Collectors and SPs to maintain a detailed watch on the state of affairs because the second wave was fairly critical, the Chief Minister ordered that the variety of beds in COVID-19 hospitals be elevated to 50,000 in order to deal with the frenzy of sufferers. He additionally requested them to make sure that there was no dearth of oxygen.

“If there is no space for patients to be in home isolation, they should be sent to COVID care centres,” he mentioned.

The Chief Minister additionally needed that sufficient shares of Remdesivir injections and different medicines be maintained within the hospitals. He additionally directed the officers to take stringent motion towards the hospitals exploiting the sufferers.

All the well being and frontline employees needs to be vaccinated with prime precedence, he mentioned, whereas cautioning the officers towards losing the vaccines.

Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Health Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, Minister S. Appalaraju, DGP Gautam Sawang and Principal Secretary (well being) A.K. Singhal have been amongst these current.