The State Government on Saturday deputed two IAS and six OAS officers to manage the Covid-19 situation in Ganjam district that has reported 2,066 positive cases and 20 deaths, highest figures among the districts.
The district witnessed spike of 216 cases during the last 24 hours against 283 cases the previous day. Thus, the district reported about 500 Covid cases in the last two days.
As per the notification issued by the General Administration Department, Works Department Deputy Secretary Parul Patawari has been appointed as Special ADM of Ganjam in-charge of Chatrapur Subdivision and Puri DRDA PD Vishal Singh appointed as Special ADM of Ganjam in-charge of Bhanjanagar Subdivision.
The six OAS officers who have been given responsibility of managing Covid at block levels are Sudhakar Nayak, Padmanav Behera, Lokanath Dalabehera, Shaktikanta Ray, Chittaranjan Mohanta and Suvendra Kumar Samal.
By Sunday evening, 1,219 of 2,066 cases had recovered while 826 infected persons were undergoing treatment in the district.