PUNE: The civic body has traced the close contacts of the 40-year-old woman from the Laxminagar slum in Yerawada and the 52-year old man from Kasewadi in Bhavani Peth, who succumbed to Covid-19-associated complications on Sunday.
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials on Monday said they have identified 16 people, including 12 family members, who had helped the woman to get hospitalized. The family members of the Kasewadi slum resident have been told to undergo institutional quarantine at the PMC facility. The officials said search was on to identify more people, including relatives, who came in contact with the two persons.
The police have, in the meantime, sealed both the slum pockets and directed people living there to stay indoors. The administration has also started checking the health, particularly symptoms such as fever, cold and sneezing, of the Laxminagar and Kasewadi slum residents.
Laxminagar is located in the Yerawada goathan area and is surrounded by two other slum pockets. The entire area is densely populated. Local corporators said they were closely monitoring the situation and urged the administration to take quick steps to check the virus spread.
A PMC official said, “We have identified the high-risk contacts of the woman who died on Sunday. Her neighbours are also under a close watch. We will shift all those people in quarantine facilities of the PMC as per requirements.”
Local corporator Sanjay Bhosale said, “We are appealing to people to not spread any false messages that could create more panic. People should stay at home. Though the area has been sealed, there will not be any shortage of foodgrain supply.”
An official from the PMC’s Bhavani Peth ward office said the administration has identified the close relatives and family members of the Kasewadi man who died. “We told them to be in institutional quarantine at Naidu hospital. Some more people in close contact with the deceased in the recent past will be quarantined as well”.
Bhvani Peth ward officer Somnath Bankar, “We are tackling the situation in a delicate way.”
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials on Monday said they have identified 16 people, including 12 family members, who had helped the woman to get hospitalized. The family members of the Kasewadi slum resident have been told to undergo institutional quarantine at the PMC facility. The officials said search was on to identify more people, including relatives, who came in contact with the two persons.
The police have, in the meantime, sealed both the slum pockets and directed people living there to stay indoors. The administration has also started checking the health, particularly symptoms such as fever, cold and sneezing, of the Laxminagar and Kasewadi slum residents.
Laxminagar is located in the Yerawada goathan area and is surrounded by two other slum pockets. The entire area is densely populated. Local corporators said they were closely monitoring the situation and urged the administration to take quick steps to check the virus spread.
A PMC official said, “We have identified the high-risk contacts of the woman who died on Sunday. Her neighbours are also under a close watch. We will shift all those people in quarantine facilities of the PMC as per requirements.”
Local corporator Sanjay Bhosale said, “We are appealing to people to not spread any false messages that could create more panic. People should stay at home. Though the area has been sealed, there will not be any shortage of foodgrain supply.”
An official from the PMC’s Bhavani Peth ward office said the administration has identified the close relatives and family members of the Kasewadi man who died. “We told them to be in institutional quarantine at Naidu hospital. Some more people in close contact with the deceased in the recent past will be quarantined as well”.
Bhvani Peth ward officer Somnath Bankar, “We are tackling the situation in a delicate way.”
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