New Delhi: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday said a fresh lockdown will be imposed in the state only if the demand for medical oxygen touches 800 metric tonnes per day.
The statement comes after the Maharashtra government has banned the gathering of more than five persons in public places between 9 pm and 6 am, while keeping the number of people at public events in view of the coronavirus cases and the omicron threat. has been limited.
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Speaking to reporters in Jalna, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that the cases of omicron were increasing “rapidly”, but in general such patients were not ending up in the ICU, news agency PTI reported. Nor did they require supplemental oxygen.
“The statewide lockdown will happen only when the demand for medical oxygen increases to 800 metric tonnes (per day),” he said.
The minister did not mention the current rate of consumption of medical oxygen in the state.
“We do not want people to face more restrictions, so I am appealing to people to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour. Wearing a mask is very important,” he insisted.
omicron cases in maharashtra
It has been told in the release of the Health Department that today two new cases of Omicron variant have been reported from Aurangabad in Maharashtra.
The two new patients are men, who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. One is 50 years old and the other is 33 years old. One of them had recently returned from Dubai while the other had come in contact with a person with international travel history.
One of them is said to be asymptomatic while the other has mild symptoms.
The two new cases have taken the total number of Omicron infected patients in Maharashtra to 110.
According to the state health department, the count includes omicron cases detected through screening at Mumbai International Airport, two patients each from Karnataka and Kerala, one each from Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jalgaon, Thane and Aurangabad. .
On the other hand, as many as 57 omicron The patients have been discharged after testing negative for COVID-19 in a subsequent test.
The Health Department said that since November 1, samples of 729 international travelers have been sent for genome sequencing in the state, out of which results of 162 are awaited.
For the total COVID-19 cases, the state recorded 1,485 new infections on Saturday, along with 12 deaths and 796 discharges.
A total of 65,02,039 COVID-19 patients in the State have been discharged after full recovery; The recovery rate in the state is 97.68 percent. The case fatality rate in the state is 2.12 per cent.
(with agency input)
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