Amritsar Sahib (Media Bureau) With the change in government policy regarding hospital admissions of asymptomatic Covid-19 patients, a total of 147 positive cases admitted to the Government Medical College and Sri Guru Ram Das Hospital were discharged on Saturday. With this, the district is left with only one active patient, who was diagnosed on Saturday.
The authorities have discharged 296 patients till date, while four Covid-19 patients had died during treatment. The district has reported 301 positive cases till date, of which 147 were discharged on Saturday. However, one of these patients was a resident of Fatehgarh Sahib and his name was deleted from the list of positive cases from the district.
A health official said, “After the deletion of name of Fatehgarh Sahib resident, we were left with 300 positive cases. Today another positive case from Tarsikka has been identified, the count again reaches 301.” He said all asymptomatic positive patients do not require hospitalisation as per the fresh government guidelines and thus have been discharged.
As per the government’s fresh guidelines, all cases very mild, mild, symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic can be discharged from isolation centers provided they are asymptomatic for the last three days. The officials stated that the new guidelines would decrease the workload on health machinery and they would be able to focus more on critical patients.
