Sikar, Kota witness over 100 new cases daily

Jaipur: Covid situation is getting worse in Kota and Sikar. While Kota has reported more than 100 new infections daily for the last 11 days, Sikar’s tally is rising by over 100 for the last two days.

Seven jail inmates were found infected in Kota while Khandela, Danta, Laxmangarh, Srimadopur, Piprali and Sikar city areas are constantly reporting new cases.

“We have created containment and buffer zones in the districts for checking the spread of the virus in the affected areas,” said Dr Ajay Chaudhary, chief medical health officer, Sikar.

Chaudhary said, “We are planning to impose lockdown as cases are constantly increasing. From the trend of new infections, we are suspecting that the strain of the virus has changed as a patient is taking more time in recovering and also it has become more infectious. A woman in Khandela has infected 21 people.”

While districts such as Jodhpur, Jaipur and Alwar are keeping asymptomatic and those with mild symptoms under home isolation, in Sikar patients are not allowed home isolation and are kept in Covid care centre.

In Sikar, the health department was taking extra precautions and was discharging patients only after testing twice. “If a patient is tests negative twice in two consecutive tests, we discharge the patients. Now, we are discharging after testing them once. We have made the change from Monday as we witnessed a spike in cases,” said Chaudhary.

In Kota, the district administration has taken an initiative to impose lockdown on Saturdays and Sundays to restrict movement of people.