Haryana on Saturday noticed one other grim day of document new circumstances with 7,717 new infections and 32 deaths being recorded within the state within the final 24 hours. Saturday’s tally was 23% larger than Friday’s case depend of 6,277 new infections within the state.
The variety of lively Covid-19 sufferers reached 38,558 and the Covid-19 positivity charge is now 5.16 per cent.
In the wake of a pointy improve in circumstances, the Haryana authorities on Saturday constituted a state-level monitoring committee, officers stated. The 17-member panel is headed by Health Minister Anil Vij. It contains the Chief Principal Secretary to the CM, Chief Secretary and the DGP. The first assembly of the committee can be held right here on Monday.
Gurgaon reported its greatest single-day spike with 2,549 new circumstances, Faridabad reported 987, Sonipat (646), Hisar (507), Karnal (477), Panchkula (349) and Panipat (250).
Panipat and Faridabad reported 5 deaths every, whereas three sufferers every died in Hisar, Karnal, and Rohtak; two every in Gurgaon, Ambala, Panchkula, Palwal and Jind, whereas one affected person every died in Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, and Fatehabad.
“Amid rapid spurt in the cases of Covid-19, in view of health and safety of employees Haryana government has decided that officers of the level of Under Secretary or equivalent and below be allowed to work from home and their physical attendance in office be restricted to 50 per cent of the actual overall strength,” a state authorities spokesperson stated.
A letter on this regard has been issued by the Chief Secretary’s workplace. All officers of the extent of Deputy Secretary, equal and above are to attend workplace on common foundation.
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As per the orders, rosters for workers attendance to be ready by involved Divisional/ Wing Heads. Individual Wing Heads can, nonetheless, name for greater than 50 % bodily attendance of any of the classes of their wings, if required on administrative grounds.
All officers who don’t attend workplace on a specific day are to make themselves obtainable on Telephone and different digital technique of communication always from their residence and work at home.
All officers residing in containment zones will proceed to be exempted from coming to workplace until the containment zone is de-notified.
Further, officers who attend workplace shall strictly observe Covid acceptable behaviour together with sporting of masks, bodily distancing, use of sanitiser and frequent hand washing with cleaning soap and water.
