Focus shifts to early hospitalisation of patients

With 43 deaths in the U.T. in just four days, the new initiative is aimed at bringing down the COVID-19 mortality rate

The administration is redoubling its efforts to ensure early hospitalisation of COVID-19 patients to reverse the rising mortality graph that has seen 43 deaths being reported in a span of just four days. Since April 15, there have been 73 COVID-19 deaths in the Union Territory, of which 43 have occurred in the four days since April 22. While between April 15 and 23, the Union Territory had been averaging between one and five deaths every day, the highest single-day fatalities came on April 27 (13), April 26 (10), April 25 (11) and April 24 (9). To illustrate how quickly the fatality count has risen, consider that the cumulative toll in the Union Territory, which stood at 699 on April 15, has swelled to 771 in less than two weeks. “We have directed the PHCs to ramp up the field presence of ASHA workers and ANMs to detect and triage symptomatic patients to make a determination between hospitalisation and home isolation,” said T. Arun, Health Secretary.