Testing at full swing in rural areas under Mission Fateh-2

health department Teams to visit every house

Kapurthala, May 26 (Punjab Post Bureau) – Covid testing is in full swing in Kapurthala district under Mission Fateh-2 campaign launched for rural areas to fight against covid, under which Health Department, Asha Workers, ANMs are going door to door to create awareness against covid.

                     Deputy Commissioner Mrs. Deepti Uppal said that today a total of 12292 houses were surveyed and 44074 populations covered. Besides that 931 samples were collected by special teams in rural areas, out of which 4 came positive. The remaining 927 samples were negative.

                     The visit of special teams for testing in the rural areas of the district has also yielded fruitful results, as a result of which the daily sampling has crossed 3500. Today, on 25 May 3553 samples were collected.

                  A total of 368677 samples have been taken in Kapurthala district so far out of which 17463 positive cases have been reported. Out of these 16066 belong to Kapurthala district . 14578 persons have been cured successfully while 1036 are active cases.