JAIPUR: While incidents of Covid patients flouting home isolation guidelines and becoming source of spread of infection are rising, the health department in coordination with home department has decided to impose micro containment zones in lanes and colonies which are badly affected due to the virus.
The move is aimed at slowing down the growth of infections in the state by taking a host of measures while ensuring that the economic activities are not get affected.
“These micro containment zones would be different from the containment zones created in Ramganj or the ruthless containment in Bhilwara and other districts where zone were created in areas covering kilometers of areas during lockdown days affecting large population. These micro containments will cover few houses of the lane so that other people of the area are not affected,” said Siddhartha Mahajan, secretary (health).
Thbe state government has roped in home department for ensuring that Covid patients do not flout home isolation guidelines. “Our department will send the list of new Covid persons to the station house officer of the police station of the respective areas. The beat constable will visit the house every three days to ensure that the infected persons is not violating home isolation guidelines,” said Mahajan.
At a bigger level, the health department is aiming to reduce the crowd in markets of other public places while keeping a check on unnecessary movement of people. Some of the decisions taken in the direction including limiting the guests at wedding ceremonies and night curfews and imposing section 144 of CrPC.
Health department officials said winters are favourable for spread of Covid-19, which is why, they have to take measures to slow down the growth of infection.
The health department will also focus on contact tracing. Earlier, contact tracing was done with the involvement of the police department during lockdown days. However, this time around, the health department official will do it over phone and they might also go to neighbouring houses of the infected persons and other people who came in contact with infected persons.
“We are focusing on early diagnosis and early treatment to prevent mortalities and also to prevent patients from getting critical after being infected,” said Mahajan.
Over the last few days, the graph of active cases have gone up continuously for over 20 days in a row, and taking notice of that, the health department roped in home department to contain spread of the virus.