New Delhi: As part of the new plan to crackdown on the spiking Corona cases, the Delhi government has decided to screen each and every house by July 6.
Delhi recorded the biggest single-day jump of 3,947 new infections, the highest reported by any state so far. With nearly 62,000 coronavirus cases, Delhi has 261 containment zones, the worst-affected neighborhoods by the outbreak.
Following this, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that under the revised COVID-19 response plan, all houses in the containment zones will be screened by June 30.
As per the new plan, surveillance and contact tracing will be strengthened in these neighborhoods that have been sealed to break the chain of transmission.
A strict monitoring plan will now be implemented at district-level as per the revised strategy.
It shall be ensured that Aarogya Setu app is downloaded by all, especially in the worst-affected neighborhoods, the state government said.
In containment zones, movement will be restricted by police by use of CCTV cameras and and the government is preparing to step up efforts for “testing and isolation”. “Rapid antigen testing will be done in such areas as per the guidelines of the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research),” according to the revised guidelines.
The state task force will be headed by the Chief Minister.
In densely populated areas, arrangements will be made to be send patients to COVID-19 care centres. All symptomatic and asymptomatic cases will be tested in containment zones between 5th and 10 day.
Twenty-thousand samples will be collected as a part of a sero survey, to estimate prevalence of coronavirus in the national capital, which will start on Saturday (June 27). The results will be released on July 10.
Two hotels – Ginger Hotel and Tulip Hotel – have been dedicated as Covid care centrs for healthcare workers as the government renews efforts to prevent the frontline workers from contracting the virus.
On Sunday, the centre asked the Delhi government to report every death as Amit Shah met Arvind Kejriwal for the third time in a week.
All coronavirus patients will have to go to COVID-19 care centres and those who have facilities at home and have no co-morbidity can avail home isolation in Delhi, the centre said, hours after the Delhi government issued a revised order on home quarantine.
This morning, Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “Delhi’s home isolation plan has been working very well. I have personally spoken to many patients on phone who underwent home isolation. I wud urge Centre and LG not to tinker wid it and restore it back.”
Amid rising number of cases, the Delhi government was sharply rebuked by the Supreme Court earlier this month that said the situation in the city was “horrendous, horrific and pathetic”.
Across India, the coronavirus tally has soared to 4.4 lakh infections.
(inputs from NDTV)
