Chandigarh, May 9: The Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab Government will soon achieve Operation Fateh with the Health Department ensuring aggressive efforts to trace high and low risk contacts of COVID-19 patients.
Giving details in a press communication, Health & Family Welfare Minister Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu said 1762 COVID-19 cases have been reported till date and at present, health facilities are being provided to 1574 active cases.
He highlighted that 11,078 contacts were identified, of which 11,056 have already been traced – 99.9 percent contact tracing. He said dedicated teams of health department are tirelessly working to trace every suspected person, so that the affected person is put under treatment without any delay.
Underlining the contact-tracing report, the Health Minister said 49.5 percent (5487) of the contacts were at high risk and 50.5 percent (5591) of contacts were at low risk. He said 3.1% (340) of the contacts were hospitalized, 82.9% (9181) were put under home quarantine and 14 percent (1555) contacts had completed the quarantine period.
He further said that out of the contacts traced (11056), 1.2% (128) were symptomatic (74 high risk and 54 low risk). Samples were collected in 63.1 percent (6972) contacts in which 3.4 percent (380) were found positive and 44.1 percent (4873) were negative out of the total contacts traced.
Lauding the Medical and para-medical staff, Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu said that teams of Health Department is continuously working like warriors at the front line in this war and constantly providing the standardize health facilities to the patients whether they are in isolation centres or in quarantine centres.
He said now, quarantine centres are being established at the block level in all districts so that people should be kept under surveillance near to their villages.
Revealing about the measure taken to ensure the health services, he said instructions have been issued to all Civil Surgeons to ensure that apart from Govt. hospitals, all private health facilities to be functional and providing both COVID as well as non-COVID services to the patients.
