Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 22
With weekly Covid cases multiplying seven times and a four-fold rise in the positivity rate in the state in the past one month, experts have said that the second wave of the infection is here and the cases are likely to rise further in the coming days. The bureaucracy top brass has also tested positive.
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The state witnessed 4,691 cases from March 15 to 21 against 684 reported from February 15 to 21.
During the same period, the positivity rate has gone up from less than one per cent to 3.6 per cent. A total of 24,008 samples were taken on Sunday, of which 867 were found positive.
According to information, after Chief Principal Secretary DS Dhesi and CID chief Alok Mittal tested positive last week, Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan and Additional Principal Secretary to the CM Amit Aggarwal, besides an OSD to the CM have also contracted the infection.
Terming this as the "second wave", Dr Dhruv Chaudhary, a nodal officer for Covid-19, said, "This was inevitable. We have seen the second wave coming after a lull of three to six months in the US, the UK and even in China."
Dr Chaudhary said that there was no official confirmation of mutant variants being active in the state, but its possibility was not ruled out since these had been detected in neighbouring states.
"Last Monday, we sent some samples to Delhi to find out whether any mutant variant is active in the state, but we are yet to receive the report. As per the new protocol, we will be sending five per cent of positive samples to Delhi to check for mutant variants," said Dr Chaudhary.
Meanwhile, 24 deaths were reported in the last seven days against three fatalities witnessed in seven days a month ago. Besides Gurugram and Faridabad, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, the districts falling on NH 44 — Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat — have the maximum burden of active cases.
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