Adopting a more scientific and social approach to check quarantined people, the Gurugram police will soon start physical visits to check quarantined people availability through geofencing technology whether they are following quarantine norms or not.
Geo-fencing technology is a virtual boundary created around the person using a person’s mobile phone locations.
If the person is found moving beyond the boundary, an alert is immediately generated. Based on this alert, police can take action or would visit their locations and ensure they are indoors, a police officer said.
The Gurugram police chief has pointed out that if any patients will not be found in home isolation during cops physical checking then actions will be taken against the violators as per rules.
It may be noted that as per the guidelines issued by the government, the Covid-19 patients who are in home isolation have to follow quarantine rules until the patients are not fully recovered from the infections. Meanwhile, the health officials suspected that the infected patients usually didn’t stay in home isolation and went out to roam in the market and other crowded places. Due to which the infection is spread by these violators.
“Residents themselves know do and don’t about novel coronavirus. The Gurugram police have already started extensive awareness campaigns about the virus infection for the safety of the residents in Gurugram. Now the cops will focus more on extensive contact tracing, physical visits at home isolation, strict enforcement and we will increase vigil in hot-spot areas to trace Covid-19 cases,” Rao said.
He further said that safety for cops from the virus is equally important and they are educating policemen through videos and other ways to remain safe from the virus.
“Contact tracing, one of the important aspects of containing the spread of the novel coronavirus, for this the city police have started using the Geofence technology to track people who have been quarantine an alert will be sent to the officials if anyone jumps the quarantine rule,” Rao added. The district has reported 33,778 confirmed Covid-19 cases, following which, 4,261 people were in home Isolation till Saturday.