Amid a surge in coronavirus infections in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said that the overwhelming majority of people hospitalised due to Covi༺d-19 have not taken booster vaccine doses.💟
In yet another sign that vꩵaccination is🧜 critical to prevent deaths and severe illness, Sisodia said that only 90 per cent of Covid-19 patients in hospitalis have missed their booster doses.
Sisodia said, "🎀Ninety per cent of corona-infected patients admitted to the hospital are those patients who have taken only two doses of the vaccine. At the same time, only 10 per cent of the patients got corona infected after the third dose of the vaccine. It is clear from this that people who apply precautionary doses are safer from corona infection."
In order 🃏to keep Delhiites safe from the coronavirus, the Delhi government has increased the pace of inoculation of precaution doses, the gov🧸ernment said.
Sisodia held a meeting with senior officers of the Health Department and district magistrates to expedite vaccination. Chief Secretary🐼 Naresh Kumar, who was also present in the meeting, directed the district magistrates to visit the ground to know the status of vaccination camps to be set up at crowded p▨laces such as metro stations, markets, and malls.
Sisodia said the Delhi government is keeping a closꩲe watch on the coronavirus situation and has already upgra♔ded its health infrastructure.
"Along with this, all the hospitals have also been asked to remain on alert. However, no🐻w people are also showing carelessness and it has been seen that many people are not taking precautionary doses," stressed Sisodia.
Delhi Covid-19 surge in numbers
All parameters of Covid-19 have witnessed a surge since the beginning of this month — daily infections, daily deaths, hospitalisations, patients needing oxygen sꦍupport and v𒁏entilators.
Betweem July 31-Aug🤪ust 13, hospitalisations and dea🔜ths almost doubled in Delhi, according to numbers taken from official health bulletins.
Around 6 per cen𓃲t of Covid-19 hos🌌pital beds are occupied in Delhi as of August 12.
Around 3 per cent of Covid-19 hospital beds were occupied i🌠n Delhi as of July 31.
On August 12, 128 people were on oxygen support🅺 in Delhi hospitals and 15 were on ventilator.
On July 3🐼1, 70 people were on oxygen support in꧅ Delhi hospitals and eight were on ventilator.
The 𓆉rise in hospitalisation suggests an increase in the severity of the disease.
Delhi has touched the seven month high tw🐻ice in terms of daily infections with♏in last two weeks.
On August 5, Delhi reporte𒉰d 2,423 Covid-19 daily cases, the highest in nearly seven months. That record 🎶was broke within a week.
𒐪On August 11, Delhi reported 2,726 daily Covid-19 cases, breaking the seven-m൲onth record set just six days back.
Daily deaths too have witnessed a spike. On August 12, Delhi reported 10 Co𝄹vid-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest in six months.
Positivity rate jumps sharply on Tuesday
Delhi on Tuesday reported 917 Covid-19 infections at a❀ positivity rate of 19.20, the highest since January.
Three Covid-related deaths were also reported.
The 𝓡positivity rate at 19.20 was a sharp jump from 14.57 on Monday. Ear𝔉lier on Delhi reported the positivity rate of 17.85, the highest since January 21.
Earlier this month, Delhi reported over 2,000 daily infections෴ for 12 days in a row.
(With PTI inputs)
