Currently, the city has 2,311 active cases, with 12 patients in hospitals. A total of 2,299 people are in home isolation. The positivity rate jumped to 9.02%. It was 6.8% on Monday.
The city also saw 150 Covid patients recovering on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s new infection count is half of the total number of Covid cases the city recorded all of last month (1,264).
The district administration declared 20 new containment zones in the city. The city now has 41 containment zones, where additional containment protocols will be followed, like sanitisation and screening. Patients in home isolation have been geo-tagged with their phone numbers, and officials said police will monitor their movement to ensure they stay at home.
Anticipating a rise in hospitalisation, the health department on Tuesday also carried out a dry run of the oxygen plants at Civil Hospital, Sector 10. “We have added 44 beds to the Covid ward at the hospital and carried out a dry run of the oxygen plants at the hospital so that in case of any emergency, we do not get caught off-guard,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer.
According to officials, the city needed nearly 60 tonnes of oxygen daily during the second Covid wave. At the height of the pandemic in May, major city hospitals depended on plants in Gujarat and Rajasthan for liquid oxygen, supplied in tankers and even trains.
Gurugram had three oxygen booster plants then. The city now has 24 of them-12 each in private and government facilities. Two can produce 1,500 litres per minute (LPM) of oxygen each. Ten of them can produce 1,000 LPM each. The remaining have capacities of 500 LPM.
On the containment zones, the health department informed, any can get denotified after two weeks if there is no further surge in cases.
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