PRAYAGRAJ: Seers and kalpwasis camping on
Magh Mela ground will be given special
Covid Care Cards (CCC) which will help authorities track the status of their health. Magh Mela will be organised in
Prayagraj between January 14 and March 11.
The health department will distribute around a lakh Covid care cards during the Magh Mela.
Each individual/organisation camping on the Mela ground will be allotted a CCC. The card will display details like the name of the individual or the name of the organisation they represent, permanent address, temporary address, name of the head of the organisation, mobile number, date of arrival on the Magh Mela ground, status of Covid report of the past three days, pre-existing medical conditions and details of Covid testing.
Nodal officer and additional CMO Dr Rishi Sahai said, “A Covid care card will be allotted to individuals and organisations who would be staying on the Magh Mela ground. Surveillance teams would be conducting tests in six different phases between January 16 and February 28.”
The six phases would be from January 15-22, January 23-30, February 1-7,February 8-15, February 16-23 and February 24-28.
“Apart from deploying thermal scanning teams at 15 entry points of the venue, we would also administer three doses of Ivermectin to the devotees. An adequate number of health surveillance teams would also be deployed in all five sectors of the venue. Plus, 20 mobile testing vans would also be roped in for testing,” Sahai said.
Devotees’ camps would be sanitized at regular intervals and health department officials would be interacting with seers, kalpwasis and other officials on duty at frequent intervals to inquire about their health.
A database of all devotees staying at the Magh Mela area will be prepared and mobile teams will update their records once a week.
Mela police have appealed to senior citizens, elderly seers and people with co-morbidities to not visit the Magh Mela venue.