Guwahati (The Stellar News): Assam continues to record impressive Covid-19 recovery rate as its stand lately at 98.02 %. The State reported 169 new novel corona virus infection cases in the last 24 hours where Guwahati (Kamrup metro district) contributed 56 patients. The total tally increases to 211682 till Tuesday afternoon, where casualty reaches to 975. By now 207525 individuals were discharged from hospital after medical interventions.
Meanwhile, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal today took part in the video conference from his official residence in the city along with State health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with other senior responsible government officials with Prime Minister Narendra Modi who chaired the high-level meeting to review the status and preparedness of Covid-19 response and management. Emphasis was given to eight high focus States namely Haryana, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and West Bengal. The modalities of Covid-19 vaccine delivery, distribution and administration were also discussed during the meeting in presence of Union home minister Amit Shah.
PM Modi remarked that in terms of both recovery rate and fatality rate, the situation in India is better than most other countries. He talked about the expansion of the testing and treatment network, and noted that special emphasis of the PM CARES fund has been to make available oxygen. Efforts are on to make medical colleges and district hospitals self-sufficient in terms of oxygengeneration, he added. Stating that it is important to understand how the people have reacted to the pandemic, PM Modi noted that it can be broken down to four stages.
The first was of fear, when people reacted in panic. The second stage saw cropping up of doubts about the virus, when several
people tried to hide that they had been afflicted by it. The third stage was of acceptance, when people became more serious about the virus and displayed greater alertness. In the fourth stage, with increasing recovery rate, people have developed a false notion of security from the virus, thus leading to rise in instances of negligence. He emphasized that it is of utmost importance to increase awareness about the seriousness of the virus in this fourth stage. The trend of increase in spread of the pandemic in countries where its impact was earlier lessening, it is being seen in some States as well, which necessitates greater alacrity and caution by the administration.
Prime Minister noted that our target should be to bring down fatality rate below 1%. He reassured that the government is keeping a close watch on the development of vaccines and is in contact with Indian developers and manufacturers, along with global regulators, governments of other countries, multilateral institutions and international companies. All the participating chief ministers praised the leadership of PM Modi and thanked the Centre for providing necessary assistance in improving health infrastructure in the States. They provided detailed feedback of the ground situation including an overview of the rise in number of cases, issues like post-Covid complications, measures taken to increase testing, going from home to home to conduct tests, imposition of curfews, awareness campaigns being run, etc.
