Hiding of symptoms to avoid hospital isolation main reason behind Covid surge.

SHYAM SOOD
Rajouri May 17:—With 13 more deaths due to Covid-19 pandemic during last 24 hours and 106 positive cases detected today, Rajouri district remains at 2nd position in Jammu province after Jammu district.
Despite strict Covid Curfew restrictions the number of active cases has reached 3412 and the death toll reached 139 till Monday.
Out of 8182 positive cases detected in the district 4631 were tested negative, including 98 today, and have recovered while 3286 samples were lifted today during aggressive tracing & testing of immediate contacts of the active cases.
The main reason behind rise in deaths due to Covid is that the people hiding their symptoms, especially to avoid isolation in the hospital, and approaching the hospital only after acute respiratory distress syndrome.
It has been witnessed recently that few persons found to succumb to Coronavirus at homes and were tested positive only when the health teams checked them.
“In such cases, when the family members/relatives and close contacts of such cases were tested/sampled they were also found positive and this is also one of the reasons for the large number of positive cases in the district” said a reliable source.
An old woman died today at home in the Kandi health block. On getting information a health team rushed to the village and found the woman active Covid patient.
During the sampling of the family/relatives, her brother was also found positive while both were not in the record of the health department.
Meanwhile, in order to implement the Covid Curfew restrictions strictly, Rajesh Shavan, Deputy Commissioner today had a round of Rajouri town while SSP visited Shahadra, Behrote, Saaj, DKG etc areas in Thanamandi tehsil and took stock of Corona Curfew implementation.
She advised people to remain at homes to break the chain of the infection and to contain it’s further spreading.