Chandigarh: With rural areas, which have been largely unaffected within the first wave, now exhibiting a COVID spike, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday (May 14) urged villagers to restrict entry into their villages to only these persons who’re freed from the virus.
Addressing the individuals of the state in a reside Facebook telecast, the Chief Minister known as for strict measures within the rural areas over the following two months, which he described as extraordinarily essential.
“Now the rural areas are seeing a surge in cases, so we need to be very careful,” he mentioned.
Exhorting individuals to “save your mohallas and villages to save yourself, your families and Punjab”, the Chief Minister requested them not to delay going to hospitals when wanted.
“We have teams of doctors everywhere, approach them if you feel unwell,” he urged them, stressing that delay in going for therapy was main to individuals ending up in L3 degree.
While occupancy of L2 beds is 50%, on the L3 degree, round 90% of the beds are at present occupied, and the state authorities is within the technique of including one other 2000, he identified.
Noting that there are three phases of the illness, of which the primary could be managed at dwelling, the CM reiterated his plea to the individuals to go to the physician on the first signal of signs.
“Let the doc decide the course of treatment, don’t get into diagnosis and medication yourself,” he appealed to them.
“I fail to understand why we are harming the interests of the state and your families in this manner,” he mentioned, including that “we do not want Punjab to go the way of Delhi and Maharashtra, which have experienced unprecedented problems amid the 2nd wave.”
The illness was wreaking havoc the world over, with even essentially the most superior international locations not immune to it, he mentioned, urging individuals to assist his authorities save the state.
The Chief Minister expressed happiness over the seamless completion of wheat procurement amid the COVID challenges, lauding the hard-working farmers of the state for this achievement.
Compared to 129 lakh MT final yr, a complete of 132 lakh MT wheat had been procured this yr, he mentioned, including that this had resulted in earnings to the tune of Rs 26,000 crore for the farmers, as in opposition to Rs. 24,600 crore final yr.
“We have won this battle but the pandemic threat continues,” he mentioned, lamenting that regardless of 14 months having handed for the reason that outbreak, some persons are nonetheless not taking the pandemic significantly.
He mentioned that Punjab has up to now had 4.75 lakh plus instances, with Thursday’s 24-hour caseload at 8484. While the full deaths stood at 11297, the state had misplaced 184 lives to COVID yesterday, he added. As of date, there are 9619 sufferers on Oxygen and 429 on ventilator help.
