JAIPUR: The health department is keeping close watch on the situation of
Covid-19 emerging in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh and other states.
While Madhya Pradesh has been witnessing a rise in the number of daily new cases since Feb 13,
Maharashtra and
Punjab have also shown a sudden spike in the number of daily new cases in the last seven days. Though
Rajasthan has not seen any such spike and has been reporting an average of 100 cases every day.
The Centre has informed the state that some states are witnessing increase in cases, including Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. “We have been asked by the Centre not to lower our guard. The message has been sent to all the districts. The cases in the state have gone down over the past couple of months. But some states have been witnessing surge in cases. We have been keeping a track of the situation emerging in some states,” said a health department official.
Moreover, the monitoring of
passengers traveling from other states and reaching any part of the state has also been intensified. “Earlier, we were conducting
RT-PCR tests for passengers traveling from other countries and reaching Rajasthan on the basis of the symptoms. But, now we are doing RT-PCR test of each and every passenger coming from other countries, irrespective of symptoms,” said the official.
The health department is giving importance to adherence of Covid appropriate behaviour, which it strongly reiterated for breaking the chain of transmission and containment of the disease.
Besides, one person died, while 98 others were tested positive for Covid-19 in the state on Saturday bringing its overall tally to 3,19,461. With one more death, state’s toll rose to 2,785.
Districts which reported new cases are Jaipur (17),
Ajmer (12), Bhilwara (11), Jodhpur (11), Kota (11), Udaipur (9), Banswara (5), Bundi (3), Barmer(3), Dungarpur (3), Nagaur (3), Chittorgarh (2), Baran (2),
Alwar (1), Dausa (1),Dholpur (1), Jhalawar (1), Rajsamand (1) and Tonk (1). Jaipur reported its 518th Covid death.