Ganderbal, June 16: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ganderbal, Krittika Jyotsna on Wednesday said that the active cases have “drastically decreased in the district this month”. As per an official statement, the DC said only 378 case are active in the district out of which 344 cases are in home isolation, 28 are in District Hospital besides 6 patients are referred to outside district for tertiary care. The DC was briefing the media on the current Covid scenario and mitigation efforts put in place in the district.
Giving details regarding active positive cases, she said last week about 47 percent population of active cases was from micro containment zones. Micro containment zones witnessed slight increase this week and now about 53 percent active positive population is from these zones, the DC added.
She appealed to people especially from micro-containment zones to extend cooperation to the authorities who visit these zones for sampling and testing adding that these zones are notified for their safety.
Elaborating on categorisation of districts in various colour zones, the DC said that categorisation of districts is based on five parameters i.e weekly positive cases, positivity, death rate, vaccination coverage and bed occupancy in district. She said that district Ganderbal is in the Yellow zone and appealed to people to follow the Covid appropriate behaviour strictly as they followed earlier so that the district comes in the Green zone.