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ÁŸflŒ∑§ Sardar Gurcharan Singh Babbar PRESIDENT ALL INDIA SIKH CONFERENCE BABBAR ADDRESS- 5, BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG, PRESS AREA, ITO NEW DELHI 110002 PHONE, 9971359517, 9312262300, 9868068019, E-mail ID, [email protected] 2 New Delhi, Thursday, 15 April, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES NEWS BOX Survey to identify encroachments in areas under MCM Testing up, positivity rate rises Gurgaon: The newly constituted Municipal Corporation of Manesar (MCM) will soon conduct a survey in the industrial town to identify encroachments and plan a too in Noida and Ghaziabad demolition drive accordingly. A direction to this effect has been given to the enforcement Noida/Ghaziabad: The health departments the positivity rate has planned to maintain this surge team by the MCM commissioner at a recent of Noida and Ghaziabad have been increased too. In Noida, the in RT-PCR tests in the coming meeting. conducting more tests than the target set positivity rate from RT-PCR days, too. In the first 12 days of “At the meeting, the enforcement team has for them. But this has had an effect on the samples stands at 6% as of April, Ghaziabad has tested been asked by MCM commissioner Munish districts’ positivity rate, which has seen a now, which was less than 1% 65,478 samples — an average Sharma to carry out a survey of the areas rapid increase in the past one month. till two months ago in of 5,456 tests a day. under the civic body’s jurisdiction and issue Against a target of 1,700 RT-PCR tests daily, February. For antigen tests, The sample positivity rate has notices to the squatters. If the encroachers Ghaziabad has been examining over 2,000 the positivity rate is 1.2%, more than doubled in the past fail to clear illegal structures, a demolition samples these days. In total, the district while the overall positivity two weeks. The positivity rate drive will be conducted next week,” district has been testing 6,000 samples daily and rate is 3.2%. Since March, for March was below 1%, but town planner RS Batth told TOI. officials are planning the increase the the district has conducted stands at almost 2% (1.98%) The issue of illegal shops near the Sare Homes 59,000 RT-PCR tests and project in Sector 92 and Mapsko residential number in the coming days. now. Ghaziabad’s overall society in Sector 82 was also discussed at the Noida, too, has been conducting 2,000 RT- 49,000 antigen tests. positivity rate since the Covid meeting. “It was also discussed that along PCR tests and 3,500 rapid antigen tests Similarly, Ghaziabad, too, has outbreak in March last year is the Sector 82-83 road, several vegetable and daily. Officials said around 6,000 tests are scaled up its testing rate over 3.5%. fruit mandis and other shops have come up being conducted in government labs the past few days. According ‘Test results delayed’ illegally. Notices have been issued to the alone, while private facilities are testing to data sourced from the As the caseload in Noida has squatters and these mandis will be razed if samples separately. health department, as many increased and more people not removed within the specified On Monday, the Noida health department as 2,062 samples were getting samples checked, timeframe,” said Batth. collected 3,547 antigen samples, of which collected for RT-PCR tests residents have approached the On Tuesday, a team led by the district town 117 were found positive. A total of 1,847 onApril 9, followed by 2,387 Ghaziabad and this increased to 2,545 on district magistrate saying that RT-PCR test planner also carried out a demolition drive in RT-PCR tests were conducted too. a day later. On April 11, a total of 2,273 April 12. results are taking more time than usual. two illegal colonies at Sadhrana village in As testing has been ramped up in the district, RT-PCR tests had been conducted in A senior health official said the department Farukhnagar. With the help of three earthmovers amid the presence of cops, the enforcement team cleared around five acres of land from encroachments. “After razing 13,500 get jabs, 10,000 70% ICU, ventilator beds the road network and few under- construction structures in the first colony, the team razed 16 structures in the second vaccine doses set to arrive kept for Covid patients colony.” Gurgaon: The district will get an distribute to all 37 cold chain points additional 10,000 doses of Covid in the district,” Dr Virender Yadav, Gurgaon: At a time when are advised home isolation, How a phone call from vaccine on Wednesday to speed up Gurgaon chief medical Gurgaon is adding over 1,000 oxygen saturation monitoring, property dealer lifted veil coverage of the 45-plus population. officer.More cohort facilities will cases every day and hospital to be managed on an OPD basis On Tuesday, a total of 13,486 people be organised in the coming days to beds are filling up fast, the via video consult and offer to of land fraud in this age group were administered give a boost to the vaccination district administration has enrol in home isolation jabs. As many as 220 session sites drive. At these facilities, the health ordered that all government and programme. These cases are Gurgaon: A man posed as the owner of a department vaccinates target private hospitals ensure that advised to report to the hospital prime plot in Sushant Lok 1, who died five — 164 at government facilities and 56 at private hospitals — were set groups of potential recipients. 40% of the total number of beds in case of respiratory distress or years ago, and transferred the property in up. Out of 4.28 lakh people eligible Observing a slow pace of and 70% of ICU and ventilator if SpO2 is less than 94%. the name of another man, who identified for getting the vaccine, 2.75 lakh Wednesday. We have already vaccination in the private hospitals, beds are reserved for Covid “We have made strict criteria for himself as the original land owner’s son. have been inoculated so far. crossed our day-three target of tika the health department will ramp up This was in 2019. patients. the hospital admission. People Meanwhile, 369 healthcare workers utsav. Private hospitals only vaccination camps in its sub- While 50% of total beds were with severe pneumonia, if they A year later in 2020, the plot, worth several centres. These units are branches of and 1,205 frontline workers also got vaccinated 2,000 people on reserved for Covid patients have a respiratory rate of less crores, was sold to another person. Two the jabs on Tuesday, taking their Tuesday and so, the overall primary healthcare months ago, the land measuring 968 centres.Meanwhile, Rajeev Arora, earlier, some of these beds will than 30 per minute and SpO2 total tally to 53,314 and 35,423, achievement is low compared to the now be used for other patients. level of less than 90% in room square yards was up for sale again. This respectively. other days. We have discussed this additional chief secretary, home “Those suffering from cancer, air, and if they have acute time, the property agent called up the son Overall, a total of 15,060 recipients with various private hospitals and and health, Haryana, said the state of the original landowner, Delhi resident were inoculated in the district. “We asked them to take steps to increase has adequate stock and is expected kidney and heart diseases and respiratory distress syndrome Madan Lal Jain, and enquired about the are aiming to vaccinate 14,000 on vaccinations. We will get more to get 18 lakh more doses of the other ailments require hospital and septic shock, should be property. The veil was then lifted off the vaccines by Wednesday and will vaccine from April 15 to 18. admission too and thus the a d m i t t e d t o h o s p i t a l property fraud.Police said Jain had Covid ward beds have been immediately. Patients requiring purchased the plot in 1994, and transferred reduced by 10%. Meanwhile, up to 8 litres of oxygen support all his properties to his son, Shital, in 2011. the ICU and ventilator beds, will be admitted in Covid Three years later, he died of natural causes. In new surge, kids account for which are needed more for wards. Patients requiring more “My father had never created any third party critical Covid patients, we have than 10 litres oxygen support, interest nor executed any agreement of increased these beds to 70%,” B I P A P, N I V, H F N C , sale or gift deed or any other kind of 8% of cases in Haryana said Dr Virender Yadav, chief mechanical ventilation, ARDS, documents with regard to the property,” medical officer, Gurgaon.