City Beautiful logs three Covid deaths in 20 days

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10

Fatalities due to Covid-19 have been negligible in the recent past as only three deaths took place in the past 20 days. This is a massive decline by 94 per cent as 53 deaths had taken place between June 1 and 20.

There was a time in May when Chandigarh saw 10-12 deaths of Covid patients every day. Patients had even died waiting for ICU beds in emergency wards.

At present, there are only 100 Covid patients in Chandigarh, of whom 10 have been admitted to the PGI. Till Saturday, there was no Covid patient on a ventilator bed at the GMSH-16, while only two patients were on ventilator beds at the GMCH, Sector 32.

In the past one week, only 1 per cent of samples had tested positive. For every 100 confirmed cases in Chandigarh, only 0.2 are at present infected and 99 have recovered from the virus. The month of June had reported 55 deaths as against 275 deaths in May that was marred by the raging second wave.

Dr Amandeep Kaur Kang, Director, Health Services, UT, said: “There was a time when our wards were full and we struggled referring patients to other hospitals who required ICU beds as such beds were occupied in other hospitals also. It was a really hard time for healthcare workers who couldn’t do much to save the lives of young patients. A lot of effort has gone into decreasing the positivity rate in the city.”

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