Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar asks officials to break Covid-19 chain

TNN | Updated: Apr 26, 2020, 07:11 IST

Nitish Kumar, CM Bihar (File Photo)

PATNA: Chief minister (CM) Nitish Kumar on Saturday asked the officials concerned to take effective measures to break the chain of Covid-19. He said district-level plan on the basis of positive cases should be made. The CM also called for strict enforcement of containment zone protocol.
Holding a meeting with senior officers to review the work being done to contain further spread of Covid-19 in the state, CM further asked the officials to ensure contact tracing, sample collection and testing with advance planning so that resources could be utilised efficiently.
He said the identified hotspots and their adjoining areas should be completely sanitised to put a check on spread of the infection in other areas.
The CM said the departments engaged in providing employment opportunities in rural areas should continuously monitor the ongoing projects and ensure that maximum number of workers, who have returned from other states due to lockdown, get employment in their own gram panchayat.
He said the ongoing work of door-to-door screening of people on the pattern of pulse polio campaign should be done with more intensity.
The CM asked the officials of the disaster management department to ensure continuous monitoring of all disaster relief centres across the state and ensure that people staying at such centres do not face hassles.