Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy on Wednesday asked district Collectors and SPs to focus on community surveillance and monitoring of Covid-19.
Reviewing the Covid situation via videoconference, Tripaty said, “The month of June is very crucial for fight against the crisis. Out of around 4.5 lakh people returned to State, many have been discharged from institutional quarantine to home quarantine. Now, we have to keep strict vigil and enforce the laws.”
Tripathy asked the Collectors to form ward-level monitoring committees for Covid to check spike in spread of the disease. He asked Collectors to intensify the IEC campaign at all levels to keep the people alert and careful. “People should be convinced not to confuse the relaxation for livelihood as relaxation in ‘social distancing’ norm which must be enforced strictly,” said Tripathy
Development Commis sioner SC Mohapatra said each district should have its own strategy of containing the disease.
DGP Abhaya directed the SPs to focus on five aspects of wearing of masks, shutdown in 11 districts on Saturdays and Sundays, evening and night curfew, regulation of marriages and funerals and maintaining of social distancing everywhere. He directed to strictly control wandering of people outside without any emergency”.
SRC PK Jena asked the Collectors to ensure quality of management in TMC and quarantine centers as per the SOP and to issue discharge certificates to the returnees on their discharge from the quarantine centers for facilitating their acceptance in the community.