<span style="color: #222222;">Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, today ordered strict enforcement of Covid appropriate protocol to prevent any super spread events, along with an increase in daily vaccination doses to 2 lakh, and a special control room to be set up for effective in-person monitoring of home isolation cases.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chief Minister was chairing a virtual meeting with several ministers, senior administrative and police officials as well as medical and health experts to review the Covid and vaccine situation in the state.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Citing figures on mortality and positivity, the Chief Minister said the restrictions currently in place are showing results, and the same needed to be implemented strictly, particularly in Mohali and other big cities showing high rates of transmission and positivity rate.  He pointed out that the state's positivity rate stands at 8.1%, even though positivity in the age group of less than 40 years had come down from 54% in September 2020 to 50% in March 2021. The curbs, coupled with strong efforts by all concerned, had helped reduce the percentage of mortality in the age group below 60 years from 50% in September 2020 to 40% in March 2021.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chief Minister directed the Health Department to further scale up vaccination efforts to vaccinate the entire eligible population within this month, along with auditing of any deaths taking place after vaccination. He said, though vaccination has increased to 90,000 per day but there is need to further take it up to 2,00,000 per day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">   </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">CM said, with Punjab currently has 3 lakh Covishield and 1 lakh Covaxin in stock. He said that sufficiency of doses must be ensured at all times and it must be ensured that the COWIN portal is updated so that the actual position is reflected.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">However, he reiterated his demand that the Centre should allow vaccination for under 45 in areas with more cases, since the UK variant is infecting younger people more. He directed Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan to pursue the matter with the central government.</span>