Punjab orders night curfew from Dec 1, doubles fine for not wearing masks

Punjab orders night curfew from Dec 1, doubles fine for not wearing masks

Amid the grim Covid-19 scenario in Delhi-NCR and apprehensions of the second wave in geographic area, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh weekday ordered a series of recent restrictions within the state, together with re-imposition of night curfew all told cities and cities also as doubling of fine for not sporting masks or following social distancing norms, with result from December one.

The curbs, which is able to be reviewed on December fifteen, conjointly prohibit gap timings of all hotels, restaurants, and wedding palaces until nine.30 pm. Night curfew can stay in effect from ten pm and five am, proclaimed the chief minister, warning individuals against material possession their guard down below any circumstances.

Giving details of the new restrictions once a high-level state Covid review meeting, a politician interpreter same the fine for not following Covid-appropriate behaviour shall be hiked to Rs one thousand from the current Rs five hundred.

Given the in-flow of patients from urban center for treatment in geographic area, it’s conjointly been set to review and optimise the supply of beds within the state’s personal hospitals. The chief minister has asked Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan to figure with the involved departments to encourage additional personal hospitals to come back on board and earmark beds for Covid care.

To any strengthen the supply of gas and ICU beds, Captain Amarinder has ordered strengthening of the L II and L III, with constant observance of districts that don’t seem to be equipped with L III facilities. The management practices in GMCHs and Civil Hospitals ought to even be examined in lightweight of the recommendations of the report received from the professional cluster, he said.

The CM has conjointly directed the Health and Medical Education departments to form emergency appointments of specialists, super-specialists, nurses and paramedics, to any augment the men that was recently reinforced with the achievement of 249 specialist doctors and 407 medical officers. The departments have conjointly been asked to contemplate making ready fourth and fifth year MBBS students as reserve and back-up, just in case required within the future.

On the testing front, the chief minister stressed the necessity to completely apply the twenty five,500 daily RT-PCR testing capability, and directed targeted and regular testing of potential super spreaders, together with officialdom. The district hospitals should have twenty four x seven testing obtainable, and also the same should even be created obtainable at alternative convenient locations wherever individuals will simply access identical, he said.

While the rise in contract tracing was a positive sign, steps should be taken to make sure that each one these contacts are tested, same the chief minister, adding that the Patient trailing Officers should even be appointed this task.

To ensure that no deaths turn up in home isolation, Captain Amarinder same the agency employed to appear into these cases ought to keep shut tabs on such patients. whereas mortality audit was current, it had been a matter of satisfaction that the Department was currently grouping reasons for putting patients on ventilator by personal hospitals, and there was a referral cluster obtainable to observe these patients, he added.

Referring to the reports of early immunogen coming back in, the Chief Minister same whereas he was happy to notice that the info for aid employees was prepared, the departments ought to conjointly cross-check the opposite classes of frontline employees United Nations agency can be prioritised for the immunogen.

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