Noida launches email service to collect info on coronavirus from residents

NOIDA: To keep outbreak of coronavirus in check, Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration has sought help of residents. Launching an email service on Sunday, the administration asked residents to come forward and share details of steps they are taking to contain the spread of the disease in their neighbourhood.
The idea is to gather information of individuals who have unknowingly come in contact with active carriers of the virus. The email dmgbncorona@gmail.com would be monitored by Prasoon Dwivedi, sub-divisional magistrate of Sadar area.
Dwivedi said, “Individuals and families can share any kind of information or apprehensions about coronavirus over the said email. In case the information seems sensitive, the surveillance team created under chief medical officer would be rushed to the site for further action.”
The administration decided to mount surveillance, since a lot of individuals who are suffering from cough, cold and fever for a prolonged period are not coming out to report the symptoms. Residents have also been encouraged to report the drives they are carrying out on a voluntarily basis within their colony or society compound so that allocation of resources could be planned accordingly.
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“The Agra episode was discussed in detail in a meeting held on Saturday the collectorate. Infected people have visited the city from Delhi and came in contact with others. It would be difficult to identify and trace their contacts. Hence an idea to collect information about suspicious people was propagated in the meeting. We are also formulating a strategy to flag down false alarms that would be generated through email service. But we need to be proactive,” said a senior administrative officer.
Meanwhile, district magistrate BN Singh on Sunday assured health department officials that the entire dispensation would work as a team to tackle the situation just as they function during elections.
Ministry of health and family welfare has recommended the following for homes:
Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as bed frames, tables, door knobs, elevator switches, railings among others daily with 1% Sodium Hypochlorite Solution
Clean and disinfect toilet surfaces daily with regular household bleach solution/phenolic disinfectants
FIR lodged:
The directors of the company which was allegedly involved in producing fake sanitizer solutions at sector 63 located unit, were booked on Sunday. Conducting a raid, administrative officials on Saturday had busted the unit and seized 50 cartons that contained 10,000 bottles containing spurious sanitizer. Four workers were arrested from the site and were interrogated.
While pursuing the leads, administrative and police officials found out that the unit was being run by directors of a private company SNSGAP Trading Pvt Ltd. The three directors including Anand Sharma (resident of Mayurdhwaj apartment, IP Extension, Parpatganj, Delhi), Satendra S (resident of ATS Advantage, Indiripuram, Ghaizabad) and Ashish Sahai (resident of ATS Advantage, Indiripuram, Ghaizabad) were named in the FIR and efforts to trace them were on.
IPC sections 275, 276, 419 and 420 that amount to preparation of adulterated drugs and cheating were pressed against the trio. Sections of Essential Commodity Act were also pressed against the three.