Rajasthan: Nine-day door-to-door drive to check Covid cases from June 21

JAIPUR: The state government has launched a state-wide campaign ‘Inform, Educate and Communicate’ (IEC) to control the number of Covid-19 cases. The nine-day door-to-door campaign will start from June 21.
The decision was made during a review meeting on corona held at the CM’s residence on Sunday late evening keeping in view the rising number of cases since Unlock 1 is in effect from June 1. It is going to be the biggest door-to-door exercise in combating Covid-19.

The announcement for the same was made by the state health minister Raghu Sharma on Monday. “This is part of the active multi-level surveillance programme combating Covid-19 in the state. The health workers, including Asha Sahyogini and ANM, will be carrying out a door-to-door survey to track symptomatic and asymptomatic patients across the state. The exercise will run till June 30,” said Sharma.
Under the IEC campaign, a massive awareness programme will be held involving all elected representatives from MLAs, municipal councillors, sarpanch to name a few. “They have been directed to distribute pamphlets and to utilise all effective communication tools to spread the word about the infectious virus. From basic precautions to the symptoms of the virus will be part of the content,” Sharma said.
He informed that the step is being taken as an average 250 cases have been registered since June 1. During the review meeting, Gehlot also expressed concern over the violations of the rules related to social distancing and face masks being reported from across the state.
Sharma, while talking to reporters at the hotel where Congress MLAs are lodged, said, “It seems people have forgotten that corona has not disappeared and it still can infect people if the rules are not followed properly.”
Divulging details of the state’s offer to provide Covid-19 test to five neighbouring states, Sharma said the state is conducting 12,000-13,000 tests per day, while the capacity is 15,000 per day. “Soon, the capacity will reach 40,000 in the state with testing centres in all districts. Considering the situation of poor testing in some of the neighbouring states, we decided to provide them with the assistance of 5,000 tests per day on need basis. It will be extended to other states if required and achievable for us,” Sharma said.