JAIPUR: Joint team of health, police, Jaipur
Municipal Corporation and district administration will visit houses of all the daily new
Covid-19 infected persons in the city for intense contact tracing, bounding the infected person to remain inside house while following the home isolation guidelines.
Moreover,
micro containment zones will be created in the areas which report five or more than five persons tested positive for Covid-19.
"The micro containment zones will be created in the city from tomorrow and the joint teams of health, police, JMC and district administer will visit houses of each and every person tested positive for Covid-19 from tomorrow. Not everywhere containment zones will be created. If we found that in a lane, five or more than five persons have tested positive for Covid-19, we will create containment zones in that area,” said Dr Narrrottam Sharma, chief medical health officer (Jaipur-I).
The health department has started sharing the list of persons tested positive for Covid-19 to the Jaipur police commissionarate from Wednesday.
Health secretary Siddhartha Mahajan issued guidelines on surveillance, contact tracing, testing Covid-19 and treatment in containment zones. Health department’s guidelines mentioned that it should conduct door-to-door survey for active surveillance.
While conducting the door-to-door survey, sampling should be done as per the Covid-19 protocol of suspected Covid-19 persons with special focus on patients with influenza-like illness (ILI).
After the person with ILI symptom is found infected with Covid-19, he should get the treatment under home isolation, Covid-19 care centre or dedicated Covid-19 hospital. The focus of the state government is now more on contact tracing for early detection and early treatment of Covid-19. The health department will monitor everyone who comes in contact with the infected person in the past 14 days from the day he was tested positive for Covid-19.
A senior health department official said that the people should take precaution if the person with whom they met tested positive in past 14 days as they might also have contracted the virus.