Policemen wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus keep vigil along a barricaded road declared as containment zone in Kolkata.
The health ministry has issued guidelines for gated housing societies that are having or desire to set up small coronavirus care centres run by Resident Welfare Associations (RWA), housing societies and NGOs using their own resources guidelines. The guidelines are based on eligibility, handling of different categories of cases, and so on, for gated residential complexes.
The ministry believes that this step may be more acceptable to the residents and will help reduce the burden on existing facilities for managing pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic and very mild cases of Covid-19 residing in that particular society.