Maharashtra: No home isolation to be allowed in 18 districts with high positivity rate
The Maharashtra authorities has determined to cease home quarantining of COVID-19 sufferers in 18 districts the place the positivity rate is high and all lively sufferers in these areas would be admitted to COVID Care Centers, well being minister Rajesh Tope mentioned right here on Tuesday. Of 36 districts in the state, Satara, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Osmanabad, Beed, Raigad, Pune, Hingoli, Akola, Amravati, Kolhapur, Thane, Sangli, Gadchiroli, Wardha, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Latur have above-average positivity charges, as per the well being division information.
Ordinarily, asymptomatic sufferers or those that have gentle signs of coronavirus an infection are suggested home isolation.
The state has 3,27,000 lively COVID-19 circumstances and the restoration rate has improved to 93 per cent. The case positivity rate — proportion of optimistic circumstances in examined samples — is round 12 per cent whereas the case fatality rate is 1.5 per cent, Tope informed reporters right here.
But the positivity rate in 18 districts is greater than the state common, he mentioned.
“The state government has decided to stop home isolation completely in these 18 districts. The district collectors have been asked to set up more COVID Care Centers (CCCs) and admit all active patients there,” he mentioned.
The collectors have additionally been requested to utilise the funds from the premium collected on the public sale of minor minerals for organising CCCs in villages, he added.
“Testing has to be done in a focused manner. Once a person tests positive for coronavirus, all high- and low- risks persons (who may have come in contact with the patient) should be tested. The collectors of the 18 districts (with high positivity rate) have been instructed to avoid random testing in large numbers to artificially bring down the positivity rate,” the well being minister mentioned.
All district collectors have additionally been directed to full hearth security audits of hospitals in their areas, he knowledgeable.
Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) employees will be skilled to conduct Rapid Antigen Tests and use self-testing kits, Tope mentioned, including they may be requested to encourage villagers to bear testing and in addition to unfold consciousness concerning the significance of vaccination.
On the worldwide tender issued by the state for coronavirus vaccines, the minister mentioned, “There has been no response from any vaccine producer. We have despatched emails for Sputnik-V vaccine (to the Russian manufacturing agency) however are but to hear from them. The Centre ought to float a young on behalf of the states.”
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