Concerned over the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Punjab, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday ordered an increase in testing to 30,000 per day, with at least 10 people in the immediate circle of every positive patient to be tested.
Interacting with top health and medical experts and officials, the CM directed the Health Department to supply ventilators, free of cost, to medical colleges and private hospitals. The CM also emphasised the need to provide manpower, such as anesthetists, to the hospitals, which had witnessed an increase in Covid-19 patients in the wake of a cap on treatment rates by the government.
Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan informed the meeting that tenders had been floated for the procurement of nine more RT-PCR machines.