A review meeting was held on Covid-19 situation in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday, chaired by Collector SK Mohapatra. The CDMO, Public Health Officer, epidemiologists, doctors, paramedical staff and civil officials joined.
It was revealed that 90 percent of household survey for detection of Covid19 suspects had been over, which was conducted by health staff and Aasha, Angawanwadi workers.
Out of 2,53,537 households, tentatively 2,28,690 families had been inspected by the health workers and enumerators in the district and the rest 10 percent survey would be completed within a week, the Collector said.
It was told that the district was not heading to local spreading of Corona infection till date. Only migrant returnees had created infection.
It was further informed that about 13,024 swabs were collected from Corona suspects and tested. From them 628 cases were reported positive and the patients had been shifted to different Covid-19 hospitals for treatment. As many as 459 patients have recovered and 167 persons are undergoing treatment. The causality figure is two in the district till June 26, the Collector informed.
Also, a few cases of Covid-19 were detected in port town of Paradip last week. Due to the reason, about 1,200 professionals, technicians and labourers had been asked to stop working at the IOCL Paradip. These people are from outside Odisha and their swab tests have been taken, the Collector said.