JAIPUR: Reporting a massive 17% daily growth rate in Covid cases on Thursday, the state achieved the grim milestone of recording the biggest single-day spike of 2,549 taking the overall tally to 2,34,907. Jaipur, too, reported its biggest single-day spike of 519 cases, breaching the 500 mark for the first time.
The state reported 371 more cases than it did a day before, which indicated that cases have been increasing rapidly post-Diwali and municipal polls in the state.
Active cases have also breached the 20,000 mark again. The first time when active cases had breached the 20,000 mark was on September 28 and touched peak at 21,924 on October 13. Since then active cases constantly dipped and on October 31, it touched 15,101. Since then, active cases have constantly been on the rise with increasing number of daily new infections being reported from different parts of the state.
For the 13th day in a row, active cases have been increasing daily.
With increase in active cases, more patients are getting admitted to hospitals. “The number of admissions to our hospitals have increased suddenly. More than 200 patients have been admitted in 2-3 days. We have 651 beds occupied out of 1,055. We still have sufficient number of beds and there is no shortage of facilities in our hospital. A month ago, the occupancy was 300-350 beds but now it has increased significantly,” said Dr Ajit Singh, medical superintendent, dedicated
Covid-19 RUHS Hospital.
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has already alerted health department officials and directed them to ensure availability of beds in private and
government hospitals. Health department is taking all possible measures to strengthen facilities for Covid care along with continuous monitoring of availability of beds.
“We have directed private hospitals, having 80 or more beds, to reserve 30% for Covid treatment. Apart from some five to eight private hospitals, all private hospitals have availability of beds. In government-run Covid hospitals too, sufficient beds are available,” said Siddhartha Mahajan, principal secretary (health).
In the last 24 hours, 15 persons died taking the state’s toll to 2,116. Jaipur reported its 403rd Covid-19 death, Jodhpur 210th, Bikaner 154th, Kota 120th, Bharatpur 98th, Udaipur 81st, Sikar 71st, Nagaur 70th, Alwar 69th, Jhunjhunu 36th, Sriganganagar 33rd, Chittorgarh 33rd, Tonk 28th, Dausa 16th and Hanumangarh reported its 9th Covid-19 death.
Districts which reported new cases are Jaipur (519), Jodhpur (346), Ajmer (210), Ajmer (205), Kota (203), Bikaner (197), Sikar (88), Sriganganagar (85), Udaipur (82), Bhilwara (76), Nagaur (68), Pali (65), Sirohi (56), Bharatpur (45), Churu (43), Dungarpur (34), Hanumangarh (29), Jhunjhunu (28), Jalore (27), Bundi (22), Dausa (19), Barmer (19), Rajsamand (17), Jaisalmer (12), Jhalawar (12), Chittorgarh (9), Pratapgarh (8), Tonk (7),
Dholpur (7), Baran (4), Karauli (3), Sawai Madhopur (3) and Banswara (1).