JODHPUR: Amid the spike in positive cases in Jodhpur due to festive and wedding season, the administration here has decided to resort to contact tracing once again with a view to break the chain and put a tab on proliferation of infections in the city.
The administration has decided to return to tracing the contact chain of a positive person, door-to-door surveillance of the quarantined person and ensuring essential medical activities and facilities.
“We have observed that the ongoing season of festivals and weddings has led to a spike in corona infections in the city. So we have decided to ensure strict quarantine of the positive person and tracing of contacts of that person,” said district magistrate Indrajit Singh.
He said that the medical and health department has been directed to identify and list all the contacts of the positive person and put them under essential 14-day quarantine either at their homes or other facilities.
“We have set a target of identification of 80% contacts within 72 hours of spotting a positive case, so that maximum contacts could be reached,” Singh said.
Besides this, the directions have also been issued that the list of home quarantined persons with address and phone numbers must be shared with the SHO concerned and beat constable immediately for proper monitoring.
The beat constables will make sure to visit the houses of the positive persons once in three days to ensure that they remain indoors as there have been many instances, where, in spite of being under home quarantine, positive persons came out of their homes.
Both the beat constable and the person under home quarantine have been advised to download Raj Covidinfo app on their mobile phone for better surveillance of the positive cases.
On the other hand, the administration has also initiated steps for identification of hot spots and demarcation of containment zones once again.
The incident commanders have been asked to identify hotspots in their respective areas and mark containment zones to control the surge in positive cases.
“We are adopting stern preventive measures to control the spread of corona infection in the city. Only essential activities would be allowed in these containment zones,” he said.