Quick steps wanted to cease ‘second peak’: PM Modi cautions ‘carelessness’ towards Covid-19
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Expressing concern over the current spike in Covid-19 instances in some states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday mentioned the relative success of India in coping with the pandemic mustn’t give method to “carelessness” and other people ought to significantly comply with the ‘Test, Track and Treat’ formulation to cease this rising “second peak” of the virus.
PM Modi, who was addressing the chief ministers of various states by video conferencing, mentioned failing to cease the rising second peak of the virus may create a nationwide outbreak-like state of affairs and fast and decisive steps are the necessity of the hour.
“The number of cases is increasing in some states. This increase is more than 150 percent in 70 districts of the country. We must stop this emerging “second peak” of Corona instantly,” he mentioned.
“The position we have reached in the fight against corona, the confidence we have now, should not give way to carelessness,” he added.
The prime minister additionally careworn the necessity to scale up the speed of RT-PCR exams, with a particular concentrate on small cities and cities. “We need to be as serious about ‘Test, Track and Treat’ as we have been doing for the last one year. Contacts of every infected person have to be tracked as soon as possible and RT-PCR test rate has to be kept higher than 70 per cent,” he mentioned.
“In several states, rapid antigen testing is being stressed upon which needs transformation. Every state in the country needs to stress more on RT-PCR test,” he added.
Speaking on the continuing vaccination drive, PM Modi mentioned the nation has crossed the determine of vaccinating 3 million individuals in a single day. However, sure states are reporting 10 per cent vaccine wastage, he mentioned.
“We have to take the problem of wastage of vaccine doses very seriously. There should be zero wastage of vaccine,” the PM mentioned, including that there’s a want to extend vaccination facilities each within the non-public and public sectors.
The assembly was additionally attended by Home Minister Amit Shah. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel skipped the assembly.
