UP scouts and guides to monitor recovered Covid patients in home quarantine

NOIDA: The GB Nagar wing of UP Bharat Scouts & Guides will now monitor people who have recovered from Covid-19 and are in home quarantine in the district. A team of 15 scouts will make daily calls to a list of such people provided by the administration to record their health updates, and provide any information they ask for.
District nodal officer-in-charge of Covid-19 response, Narendra Bhooshan, said the idea behind engaging scouts and guides was to provide assistance to the current contact tracing team which is now more engaged with shifting patients, summarising daily additions of cases and other logistics.
The move was decided in a joint meeting held in Vikas Bhawan on Saturday with chief development officer AK Singh, district magistrate Suhas LY, police commissioner Alok Singh, Bhooshan, and other officials.
Over 1,000 people will be monitored by them in this exercise. “Currently there are 575 people under home quarantine in urban areas of the district and 519 people in rural areas. Together, there are 1094 such people till date,” said Hemant Kumar, district economic and statistics officer (DESTO).
Apart from the list of contacts shared by the administration, the volunteers can also track those on home quarantine through Aarogya Setu and Ayush Kavach mobile applications.
Bharat scouts and guides is an association registered under the Society Registration Act XXI of 1860 and is a non-political, non-sectarian, non-communal, non-profitable educational organisation, open to every citizen of the country.