100-bed Covid centre may be set up in Sohna

Gurgaon: Sohna is likely to get a dedicated care centre for the isolation and treatment of Covid-19 patients. As the area has witnessed the highest caseload in Gurgaon in the last one month, the health department has proposed to develop a 100-bed Covid care centre here.
The block already has an isolation centre for Covid patients. Sohna was declared a large outbreak region after 198 cases surfaced in the area in the past month. “We have sought a site for setting up a Covid care centre in Sohna. A proposal has been sent to the district administration. We are conducting contact tracing in the area and we will increase testing if needed,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer, Gurgaon.
The idea is to prevent the transfer of patients from Sohna to other places in the district for treatment to contain the spread of the virus.
Gurgaon has a total of 23 public health units, of which Sohna is contributing the highest number of Covid-19 cases at present. According to health department data, Sohna saw a spike of cases in the first week of July. Though the positivity rate has come down to 8.6% now from 11.2% in July 11, the area is still under surveillance. A total of 2,301 tests were conducted in Sohna between June 26 and July 21, out of which 198 people tested positive.
Increasing the number of rapid antigen tests, isolating symptomatic people quickly and sealing Sohna as a large outbreak region have helped lower its positivity rate, health officials said. Sohna was sealed on July 13.
Till July 9, Sohna’s positivity rate was 10.83%. Two days later, it rose to 11.2%.