October sees only one Covid death in Chandigarh

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 31

The month of October saw only one death due to Covid-19 and 121 persons testing positive for the disease. This is the lowest monthly Covid statistics recorded this year. Last month, six persons had succumbed to the virus and 126 had tested positive.

A total of 53,886 tests were conducted this month, while 69,105 patients were tested for Covid last month. There is a dip in testing by 22 per cent.

“The trend of Covid cases is stable in our region. However, a minor upsurge has been noticed in southern states of the country. Next month will be crucial to keep a watch on the pandemic. Season is changing and people will stay more indoors during winter in close groups, which will increase transmission. There will be a huge gathering in markets and elsewhere due to the festival season. The pandemic is still around as patients keep coming to the PGI and other hospitals of the city. People need to be cautious and wear a mask even though they are vaccinated,” said Dr Rajesh Kumar, former head of the School of Community Medicine and Public Health, PGI.

For every lakh people in Chandigarh, 67,129 samples were tested and 5,542 out of every lakh people in the city have tested positive for the virus.

In the past one week, 0.2 per cent of the samples tested came back positive. For every 100 confirmed cases, 0.1 are currently infected, 99 have recovered from the virus and one has succumbed to the deadly virus.

Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, Public Policy and Health Systems expert, said: “Nationwide rise in the cases is very unlikely. There may be a minor rise in cases after Diwali in different states, but barely to qualify a fresh wave. The number of cases is low and a two-threefold increase at the state level has not much relevance.”

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