The Dehradun district magistrate Ashish Kumar Srivastava has said that the Forest Research Institute (FRI) campus where three trainee IFS officers were first found positive for COVID-19 has undergone 28-day lockdown as per the containment plan, COVID-19 of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The chief medical officer had requested that the campus be freed of quarantine on completion of the 28-day period. The DM has ordered for the campus lockdown be lifted. However, he clarified that the quarantine and isolation centre at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy will remain operational till further orders. Additionally, all movement in the said campus/building will remain restricted till further orders and the lockdown in force in the district will be applicable in this area too.
Meanwhile, more than three lakh people are under community surveillance in Dehradun. On the directions of the DM, till now the team of teachers, Asha and Anganwadi workers have conducted community surveillance of around 3,85,226 people. Informing more about this, Dehradun Chief Development Officer (CDO) Nikita Khandelwal said that two types of surveillance are being done by administration. The first type is community surveillance which is done by the teams of Asha workers, Anganwadi workers and teachers who directly interact with the suspected patients of COVID-19 especially in the red zone areas like Bhagat Singh Colony. The second type of surveillance is being done through phones with the help of data available to administration, added CDO. On Friday, 37 teams contacted 195 people through phones. Besides, 18 people in the district were referred to the medical team after being found with symptoms of cough and cold among others.