Worried over sudden surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials at the districts to set up Covid command centre besides monitoring the flow of traffic, market crowd and containment areas with the help of drones.
“Every district should have a Covid command centre to coordinate with all departments engaged in the work while a similar command centre should be set up in Lucknow to monitor all the districts,” the chief minister said. .
Yogi also said that drones should be used to monitor the crowd at market places and other areas besides recording the cleanliness drive and activities in the containment zones and hotspots.
These instructions were issued to the officials of Team 11 during the routine meeting of the chief minister here on Friday.
Briefing media persons, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said that the command centre for Covid would be set up in districts and in Lucknow the work had commenced for a state-level command centre similar to the relief commissioner’s office.
“The use of drones during the two-day restrictions on Saturday and Sunday would give a feedback to the authorities,” he said.
Similarly, like the Covid command centre, the chief minister has also asked the officials to set up a centralised ambulance centres in every district.
“We have such centralised ambulance centre in Kanpur and it should be adopted in other districts too,” the chief minister said .
Awasthi said that the chief minister asked all the districts to go for a massive drive against people not wearing face masks in public and fine them accordingly.
During the meeting, the chief minister said that doctors should attend to the patients at the hospitals while all the ventilators in hospitals and life support ambulances should function smoothly.
He said technicians should be trained to operate ventilators.
“Asking officials to strengthen the ambulance services, the chief minister said there should be separate ambulance services for Covid and non-Covid hospitals and the ambulances should have oxygen,” the additional chief secretary said.
The chief minister asked additional chief secretary/principal secretary/ secretary-level officials to expedite cleanliness activities in the districts they were in-charge of.
He also directed officials to bring transparency in food grain distribution programme and ensure that the needy persons got the required food grain.
He said locust movement should be monitored closely and effective action taken in this regard.
The chief minister also directed officials to keep communicating with the potential investors and facilitate them.