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Both doses mandatory for teachers to attend duty in schools; Jalandhar DC

News Bureau — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:37:19 +0000

Jalandhar: Following Covid-19 cases in government schools in Punjab, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori has asked the health and education department to ensure complete vaccination (both doses) of entire teaching and non-teaching staff in all government and private educational institutions by the end of this month.
“Any kind of laxity in this task would be dealt with heavy hands as safety of children cannot be compromised at any cost,” he said while issuing orders to all schools.
Chairing a joint meeting with the officials of the health and education department, the DC directed that a special drive be launched in both government and private schools and colleges to ensure that no one left without the vaccination.
He asked the district education officer to prepare a list of teaching and non-teaching staff who have taken either one or both doses adding that no one should be allowed to attend duty in schools unless they have taken both doses of their vaccines.
During the meeting, DEO Secondary and DEO Elementary have been asked to compile information of pending teachers for vaccination in two days through Google sheets and share it with district immunization officer for necessary camps in respective schools.
Meanwhile, the deputy commissioner also directed the education and health department to ensure strict adherence to Covid appropriate behaviour in schools including social distancing, masking, hand sanitizing, and others. He further asked health officials to ensure random RT PCR testing in schools so that virus spread could be kept under check.

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Punjab to conduct 10,000 Covid-19 tests in schools daily

News Bureau — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:33:10 +0000

Chandigarh: Considering safety of students in schools in Punjab, state government issued fresh directions to all deputy commissioners (DCs) to conduct at least 10,000 Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests in schools across the state.

Chairing a coronavirus review meeting, chief secretary Vini Mahajan directed the health officials to conduct around 10,000 RT-PCR tests and DCs have been asked to ensure that only fully vaccinated teaching and non-teaching staff was allowed to attend the schools.

These samples have to be collected randomly among students and teachers to check the virus spread.

Punjab had reopened for all classes on August 2 and heads of all private and government schools have been asked to take at least 10,000 samples per day from Monday.

However, 27 government students tested positive from four districts in the state. 21 from Ludhiana, 3 from Abohar, 2 from Nawanshahr and one student in Amritsar tested positive on Tuesday.

As per the order, Ludhiana has given a target of 1000, Amritsar (790), Patiala (700), Jalandhar (647), Sangrur (570), Gurdaspur (565), Fazilka (562), Hoshiarpur (560), Bathinda (552), Tarn Taran (480), Ferozepur and SAS Nagar (420 each), Muktsar and Moga (390 each), Mansa (350), Kapurthala (260), Faridkot (250), Ropar (240), Fatehgarh Sahib and SBS Nagar (220 each), Barnala (210) and Pathankot (205).

DEOs in coordination with the Covid nodal officer of the district have to ensure that sampling and testing are done as per directions.

Meanwhile, there is a panic among parents of the school and health officials would conduct sampling of suspected coronavirus patients.

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Hospitals overwhelmed amid fresh daily surge of COVID-19 in US

News Bureau — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:38:26 +0000

Washington: The United States has witnessed the highest weekly level as the country again started witnessing a fresh surge of coronavirus infections, on Monday.
According to a report by Bloomberg, the new cases in the US rose to 761,216 in the week ended Sunday, the highest total since early February.
Following this, hospitalizations overwhelmed with patients among America’s deep south states on Monday and authorities have appealed to unvaccinated residents to receive the shot at once to combat the virus spread.
The fresh surge has been fuelled by the Delta mutation of the coronavirus and most of the positive samples have been found of the unvaccinated people, authorities said.
As per the record, the death toll has also risen to record levels as it climbed 49% to 3,486 for the same period. It was the biggest weekly increase since December, Bloomberg reported.
The US has been at the top of the list of the countries worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 616,800 Americans have succumbed to the viral infection that targets the immunity system of the body. The number of total infections stands at 35,948,131, the John Hopkins’ tally showed.
Mississippi’s top public health official on Monday said that as Covid-19 cases are surging with delta variant, which is highly contagious and no intensive care beds are available in 35 of the state’s top-level hospitals. Hospitalizations for Covid-19 have hit a record high in some other states including Louisiana, Arkansas.

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