Ferozepur: Corona +ve cases continue slow and steady, 25 coronavirus cases in a week, 2 deaths
Ferozepur, February 24, 2021: Fresh Corona positive cases continued in Ferozepur slow and steady with 25 cases in a week and two deaths. Meanwhile, the process of corona vaccination is going on and so far out of 793 health and frontline workers, 363 employees have been vaccinated and all are reported to be safe and no side-effect or problem feedback is there.
With the surfacing of two Corona positive families in village Fero Ke and Friends Enclave in Zira, have been declared as Micro Containment Zones.
It has started flattened in certain parts but it is still with a slight recent uptick. After the opening of schools, one positive case has been noticed. There is nothing to be panicky about as the child was not going to the school for the last one week but as a precautionary measure, samples of 25 staff members have been sent for testing and in the meantime, online classes have been started.
As of today, two new positive cases were reported with only one recovery when there are 25 active cases in the district with 150 deaths since the outbreak of coronavirus. In the district, a total of 88025 samples were taken and 83401 were found negative. Out of 4624 reported positive 4449 had recovered.
As per the information, during the month of January 59 cases were reported as positive with six deaths. Out of 5812 samples sent for testing, 5766 were found positive. During the month of February till date, out of 4470 samples taken for testing, 4433 were reported negative and 44 new corona positive cases surfaced with 3 deaths.
CMO Dr.Rajinder Raj said, with the little ease of the situation, the people have started taking it lightly. He, however, made an appeal to the citizens to follow the guidelines of the health department for wearing masks, washing hands frequently and maintaining social distances at crowded places.