shimla saying that around 2700 active cases of covid19 virus in the state is a matter of concern as the cases have increased in a very short period chief minister jai ram thakur on thursday directed all the deputy commissioners of the state to focus on contact tracing especially in the rural areas keeping in view the abrupt spike in the covid19 related caseshe said that most of the cases had been reported from the rural areas whereas there were very few cases in the urban areas including major tourist places which indicates that there had been no impact of tourist flow to different parts of the state he said that social gatherings marriage functions feasts etc were the main reasons behind the spread of this pandemicjai ram thakur said this while presiding over video conferencing with deputy commissioners and superintendents of police from shimla to review the covid19 situation he said that there were adequate oxygenated general beds oxygen concentrators testing kits and ventilators and the work on setting up of 28 additional psa plants was in progress the work on eight psa plants had already been completed and ten more psa plants would be completed by august 31he directed the district administration of kullu mandi shimla chamba and kinnaur to make provision for testing of labourers keeping in view the ongoing apple season in various parts of these districtshe said that the state government would soon consider imposing further restrictions and reopening schools to check further spread of covid19 he said that the state had performed well in the vaccination drive with zero per cent wastage however there was a need to intensify the vaccination drive as this was the strongest measure to contain this virushe said that hamirpur kullu bilaspur kinnaur and lahaulspiti districts have already completed a 100 per cent target of administration of the first dose and the target had been fixed to vaccinate all persons above the age of 18 plus within ten days he said that 29 per cent of people have taken the second dose in the state and by november all the people of the state would be given the vaccinehe directed the deputy commissioners to monitor civil and electrical works for establishing psa plants so that this facility could be made available to patients at the earliest he said that funds and manpower would be increased for the police department for strengthening the mechanism of checking at the borders and other areas he also stressed that the districts should focus on the maintenance of roads and preparation for smooth plying of vehicles during the apple seasonchief secretary ram subhag singh directed the districts that keeping in view the rise in covid19 cases in rural areas panchayats and sub divisional level teams should be made more active and there was also a need for microplanning he said that a covid19 officer should be deployed on 1012 panchayats for monitoring of covid19 cases in these panchayatsdirectorgeneral of police sanjay kundu underlined the