PUNE: The civic authorities have deployed 75 more survey teams as well as 10 mobile dispensaries with doctors and health staffers in the five most coronavirus-affected wards of the Pune Municipal Corporation to ramp up check-ups besides, activating service rapid response teams for rigorous contact tracing.
Rubal Agarwal, the additional municipal commissioner, said, “The administration has decided to focus on the hotspots. Dedicated survey teams are checking the residents. The focus is now on deeper cleaning and isolation of people who show symptoms, while the rapid response teams are engaged in contact tracing.”
Out of over 1,200 positive cases of Covid-19 in the city, almost 66% (about 800) are from the five wards, including Bhavani Peth (over 200 cases), Dhole Patil Road, Shivajinagar-Ghole Road, Kasba Peth-Vishrambaug and Yerawada-Kalas-Dhanori. The presence of slums has been the prime reason for the spread of coronavirus in these wards. The ward officers of the most-affected areas have been told to conduct daily follow-up of the surveillance work.
A total of 15 wards are there in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits.
An official from PMC’s health department said, “Though a containment plan is in place at all the hotspots and a rigorous contact tracing has been under way, people from many areas are not cooperating with the surveyors. Since people are avoiding screening, we are now going to every household. At many places, the administration is taking help of social groups and police for reaching out to people.”
Another official from the civic administration said the slum pockets from all over the city were being closely monitored. About 350 teams will now be conducting checks in those areas. There would be on-the-spot checking of people showing symptoms and they would be told to go for institutional quarantine.
Rubal Agarwal, the additional municipal commissioner, said, “The administration has decided to focus on the hotspots. Dedicated survey teams are checking the residents. The focus is now on deeper cleaning and isolation of people who show symptoms, while the rapid response teams are engaged in contact tracing.”
Out of over 1,200 positive cases of Covid-19 in the city, almost 66% (about 800) are from the five wards, including Bhavani Peth (over 200 cases), Dhole Patil Road, Shivajinagar-Ghole Road, Kasba Peth-Vishrambaug and Yerawada-Kalas-Dhanori. The presence of slums has been the prime reason for the spread of coronavirus in these wards. The ward officers of the most-affected areas have been told to conduct daily follow-up of the surveillance work.
A total of 15 wards are there in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits.
An official from PMC’s health department said, “Though a containment plan is in place at all the hotspots and a rigorous contact tracing has been under way, people from many areas are not cooperating with the surveyors. Since people are avoiding screening, we are now going to every household. At many places, the administration is taking help of social groups and police for reaching out to people.”
Another official from the civic administration said the slum pockets from all over the city were being closely monitored. About 350 teams will now be conducting checks in those areas. There would be on-the-spot checking of people showing symptoms and they would be told to go for institutional quarantine.
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