Jhansi admin gears up for house-to-house mapping op

TNN | Apr 4, 2020, 04:11 IST

Jhansi: In a first, massive house-to-house mapping exercise will be conducted in Jhansi and the district administration will screen as many as 20 lakh persons in rural as well as city sectors to detect Covid-19 suspected cases.
Apart from this, investigation is underway to zero in on people who have returned from abroad after March 13 and those who have come from outside the district after March 23.
The entire operation will be headed by the municipal commissioner. The city has been divided into four sectors consisting 15 wards each. Each ward will have a sector magistrate to overlook the operation.
Similarly, CDO will head the operations of blocks and gram panchayats while ADMs will take charge of the exercise in 15 Nagar Panchayats and Nagar Palikas.
Help is also being sought from various religious leaders and vyapar mandals.
“Our modus operandi will be to acquire information about abroad travellers and those who came in contact with them, look for symptoms,” said Jhansi DM Andra Vamsi.
Meanwhile, Jhansi CDO, Nikhil Tikaram Funde, said that 24 teams in rural areas and 12 teams in the urban areas are working on this project extensively to get a detailed output as early as possible.
“Besides, special warning stickers are being put on the houses where suspected patients are under quarantine to alert others,” he added.