Rajasthan govt working to reduce Covid mortality rate: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot

JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said the state government has been working to reduce mortality rate from Covid to negligible level.
He said swasth mitra will be appointed in every village to create awareness on the pandemic.
Gehlot was addressing the council of ministers, secretary-in-charge of districts, collectors, superintendents of police, sub-divisional officers, CMHO, information and public relations officers as well as other officers of sub-divisional and tehsil level through a video conference.
Gehlot said that as the number of activities permitted under unlock increases, the number of infected people would also increase. “So people have to strictly follow preventive measures such as wearing masks, frequent washing of hands, no spitting in public places and maintaining social distancing. These are ways to stop this pandemic,” he said
Gehlot said that despite the increase in the number of active cases in the last few days, with good management, the rate of doubling of corona infected patients and the death rate have been kept lower than the national average. Other states are also adopting our efforts to prevent corona infection, he said
He said that public representatives have a special role in the awareness campaign. After the ministers in charge, now legislators should also participate in making people aware in their respective fields for five days.
Health minister Raghu Sharma said active surveillance was done during the time of lockdown. Now, this work of door-to-door survey will also be taken forward in Unlock-2, he said.
Chief Secretary DB Gupta said that in districts where migrant workers have come in large numbers, a strategy of random testing is being chalked out. He stressed the booth level committees to work more actively.
Additional chief secretary (medical and health) Rohit Kumar Singh informed that so far 8.24 lakh samples have been taken for corona testing in the state out of which 18, 092 persons were found infected in the state, of which 78.7% have been cured. He informed that 1 lakh beds have been arranged in the state to deal with corona.