With the central government questioning the low coronavirus testing in Punjab and a few other states, the state health department has directed to gather a minimum of 60,000 samples altogether districts. . Punjab’s average testing in November was around 23,000 during a day. Within the last almost one week, the state conducted about 17,500 corona tests during a day. The state’s highest daily testing was recorded at 82,000 during the second wave of the pandemic. A senior health department official said that as per the instructions of the Centre, Punjab should conduct a minimum of 50,000 tests each day despite the low positivity rate.
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The newest concern of the middle has come to the fore after reports of third and fourth waves in various countries. Punjab’s health department claims that 2,400 tests per million per day within the state is far better than the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation of 150 tests per million. State data shows that 51,674 tests are being conducted per lakh population. State Covid-19 Nodal Officer Dr. Rajesh Bhaskar said that since our positivity rate is low. Besides this, a small change within the doings of individuals has also been observed.
The danger of Covid has reduced thanks to a pointy drop by cases and other people are now avoidance from testing. Out of entire of 6,15,351 tests conducted by the Health Department in November, 753 persons were found to possess a positivity rate of 0.12 percent. A senior official said that both testing and vaccination are badly affected thanks to the strike by various unions demanding the regularization of jobs before the assembly elections. Alongside every passing day, the group of individuals is increasing. That’s why all the district health administrations to gather 60,000 samples during a day. All the guidelines are accommodated to the civil surgeons.
