Nalanda district administration tightens vigil

BIHARSHARIF: In view of the fresh surge in Covid-19 cases, the district administration has tightened vigil to ensure that people coming from other states get themselves tested before entering Nalanda.
While reviewing the status of the vaccination drive in Nalanda on Tuesday, district magistrate (DM) Yogendra Kumar Singh was told that altogether seven mobile Covid testing centres were set up at the Biharsharif, Rajgir and Islampur railway stations and different bus stands on March 17.They had collected as many as 10,354 samples in the last seven days, of which 10 were Covid positive.
According to civil surgeon Dr Sunil Kumar, all the asymptomatic patients are under home isolation. As a precautionary measure, the Beedi Labour Hospital may also function as an isolation centre.
“The health workers have exceeded the target of collecting and testing 1,300 samples every day,” Dr Sunil told this newspaper.
Appreciating the efforts of the health workers in ensuring sample collection and timely distribution of reports, the DM asked the civil surgeon to conduct the vaccination drive effectively.
Of the 14,548 health workers, who were inoculated in Phase I of the Covid vaccination drive in the district, only 10,532 took the second dose.
The situation was worse in case of the frontline workers. While 8,451 of them took the first shot, only 2,776 showed up to receive their second shot.