With an aim to keep the virus spread under check, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori today appointed 246 Covid monitors and supervisors to keep an eagle eye over gathering in hotels, marriage palaces, and banquet halls.
Divulging the details, the deputy commissioner said that as the state government has capped gathering in marriage events, all the monitors have to ensure the maximum gathering of one hundred and two hundred for the indoor and outdoor events respectively. He further added that besides ensuring gathering was within the prescribed limit; they also have to make sure the Covid appropriate behavior was implemented during the events in letter and spirit. He also said that the maintenance of social distancing, wearing masks, availability of hand sanitizers have to be ensured by these monitors as all the managers of these institutions were appointed as Covid monitors.
The deputy commissioner stated that the administration has also appointed supervisors (government officials) for all the 246 hotels, marriage palaces, and banquet halls. These supervisors would conduct random visits in the institutions allotted to them and submit their report to district administration about the enforcement of the state government's guidelines and protocol during an event, he added. Mr. Thori categorically mentioned that all the Covid monitors would be responsible for the implementation of Covid appropriate behavior in their institutions and appropriate action would be taken against them if non-compliance with the government's orders were reported by the supervisors.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner has directed the officials of the education department to ensure vaccination of government teachers as they have been recognized as frontline workers for rendering their services during the pandemic. Further, he asked the officials of the health department to speed up their daily sampling so that the virus could be kept at a bay adding he directed the officials to ensure at least 15 contacts of a positive patient to be traced in the district besides enforcement of curfew-like strictness in the containment zones.
The deputy commissioner also directed the local police authorities to keep a tab over the gathering in the crowded public places while ensuring proper enforcement of night curfew in the district. He said that the battle against Coronavirus can only be won with collective efforts and being complacent could take a heavy toll on all of us.