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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Ludhiana man shoots at wife, mother-in-law over petty issue

News Bureau — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:02:15 +0000

Ludhiana: In a gruesome incident, a man shot his wife and mother-in-law over a trivial issue here on Tuesday morning.
Hearing the sound of gunshots, neighbours rushed the injured to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, where their condition is stated to be critical.
The accused has been identified as Jaswinder Singh of Patel Nagar and he fled the spot after committing the crime. The accused was an ex-lecturer at a local college and was currently unemployed.
Following the information, police also rushed to the spot and launched an investigation.
Police said that the accused lived with his wife Jaspreet Kaur at Patel Nagar. The two had a fight on Monday night over some petty issue. Following this, at 6 am on Tuesday he shot at his wife. Then he went to Pratap Nagar and shot at his mother-in-law, identified as Vandana.
Local took Jaspreet to the hospital while police were patrolling near the place where the mother-in-law was shot at heard the gunshots and rushed Vandana to hospital.
Police in charge of the Haibowal said that the accused is absconding and efforts are on to nab him.
“It is yet to be ascertained whether the accused used his licensed weapon. What triggered these events could be known once the injured regained consciousness, police added.

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