Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori today directed the officials to impose curfew like strictness in the all the micro-containment zones to arrest the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
After participating in the video-conference presided by Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan, Deputy Commissioner asked the Civil and health officials to keep eagle eye on the micro-containment zones and there must be utmost strictness in the these zones to prevent the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
Thori said that in Jalandhar, only one micro-containment zone is active and all persons in the areas has been tested for Covid. He asked officials to ensure implementation of government's guidelines, especially covid appropriate behaviour in these zones. He asked the officers to ensure that no movement of vehicles and persons take place in the zones.
He said that any violation of the norms in the containment zones should be dealt with sternly. He said that for any sort of lapse the officer of the concerned area would be held accountable.
He directed the officials to monitor the gathering at marriage palaces and asked them to deploy supervisors so that state government's orders regarding gathering could be implemented in its letter and spirit. He further proposed to deploy public address system in the markets to sensitize people about the covid appropriate behaviour.
Further, he told the health teams to ramp up the sampling to 6000 daily and ensure the sampling of the each contact of a positive person as soon as possible besides quarantining of the positive cases.
He further told the police officials to start challaning drive against those who are violating Covid protocols including masking, social distancing and others. He mentioned that 66,601 challans were issued for not wearing masks and a penalty of Rs. 3,17,49,600 was also recovered from the violators. Similarly, challans for spitting, violating home quarantine, not maintaining social distancing were also issued.
Deputy Commissioner also appealed all the beneficiaries including senior citizens and people between ages 45 to 59 with co-morbidities to come forward and get vaccinated. He further asked all government teachers to must get Covid-19 jab to curb the virus spread in schools.
He revealed 8374 healthcare, 9830 frontline, 1254 above 60 and 148 those older than 45 with co-morbidities have been vaccinated in the district.
He further informed Chief Secretary that so far, Jalandhar has collected 6.44 lakh samples including 22427 in last seen days with an average of 4000 samples per day. As many as 4401 samples have been taken from. schools in last week, he added.
He said that the Jalandhar has registered 15.3 percent contract tracing and around 84.90 percent of the total contacts have been tested.
Deputy Commissioner added that total 481 level-2 beds, 132 level beds and 72 ventilators are in Jalandhar and directed the officials to augment the infrastructure.
He said that the state and district was fighting a war against an ‘invisible enemy’ and the officers were already doing a tough job.
The Deputy Commissioner further asked the officers to continue their duty zealously as it was a war against the Covid-19 pandemic, which has emerged a major threat across the globe.
Meanwhile, the deputy Commissioner imposed night curfew in the district effective from 11pm to 5 am till further orders. Also exempted some categories from the curfew to carry out their functioning.
Prominent among others present on the occasion included SSP Dr. Sandeep Garg, Additional Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Sarangal, SDM Gaurav Jain, Civil Surgeon Dr. Balwant Singh, and District Immunization Officer Rakesh Kumar.