This comes as the state reported 71 new cases during the day, taking the cumulative tally of the infection in Odisha to 12,88,202. The death toll stood at 9,126 with no new fatality
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BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government on Monday asked hospitals, both government and private, to avoid non-essential hospitalizations and defer elective surgeries in view of second wave of Covid infections.
A fresh set of guidelines issued by the state issued by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) asked the hospitals to stop all elective surgeries while take up emergency surgeries with universal precaution.
Amid rising Covid infections, the government asked the hospitals to suspend central registration of patients, to avoid crowds in queue, for OPD care. Instead, it asked them to do manual registration by maintaining social distancing.
The government move came on a day the state witnessed 1,741 new infections and two deaths. The state has been reporting more than 1,000 new cases per day for past four days. The state now has 9,259 active cases.