JAIPUR: Amid apprehensions of the third wave of Covid, state’s eight districts have not reported new infections for over 50 days.
The districts are Bundi, Karauli, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara, Dausa, Jaisalmer and Prapatgarh.
Bundi district on Tuesday achieved the milestone of not reporting a single Covid case for 94 days . The last case reported in Bundi was on July 3.
The state had witnessed severe and aggressive second wave in April and May and since then the trajectory of daily new infections started going down. Bundi is the district which has now completed 94 days without reporting even a single Covid infection.
Since July 3, over 28,000 samples were tested for Covid in Bundi, but not a single sample tested positive. “Though cases have not been reported in our district for a long time, still we are conducting tests of over 3,000 samples,” said Dr Mahesh Tripathi, chief medical health officer (Bundi).
Bundi is one of three districts which have reported lowest number of Covid infections. Dr Tripathi said they had achieved it as they conducted the survey and detected Covid early during the second wave and ensured that the patients got treatment at home for which they provided the medicines to patients at the doorsteps. Karauli district has not reported new Covid infection for the past 93 days.
The last case was reported on July 4. Chittorgarh reported its last Covid case on July 23, Dungarpur on July 25 and Banswara on August 5. Dausa and Jaisalmer reported their last case on August 6 and Pratapgarh on August 9. Churu and Baran reported their last cases on August 25 and August 26, respectively.
At present, the state has 20 districts that do not have any active case.
In the last 24 hours, one person was found infected with Covid in the state, which was reported from Jaipur. No death was reported.
