Delhi to screen each house by July 6, revises COVID19 response plan


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▴ Delhi to screen each house by July 6, revises COVID19 response plan
Delhi stands at the second position within the country behind Maharashtra in terms of total COVID-19 cases

To check the further spread of the Coronavirus, every house in Delhi is going to be screened by July 6, the govt has reportedly said because it revises its COVID response plan.
Delhi on Tuesday saw the most important single-day spike in cases of Coronavirus after it crossed the 66,000-mark. Now, Delhi stands at the second position within the country behind Maharashtra in terms of total COVID-19 cases.

As a part of the new ‘Delhi COVID Response Plan’ to beat corona, all containment zones are going to be reviewed, redesigned by June 26 and therefore the screening of each house in these zones is going to be done by June 30.
The screening of the left out Delhi are going to be completed by 6 July, the New Delhi COVID plan states.


For an estimation of Coronavirus infection in Delhi, a Sero survey will start on June 27, results of which can be out by July 10. This survey is going to be wiped out collaboration with NCDC, the Delhi government reportedly said on Wednesday.
The Plans
Strengthening surveillance team at the district level
Kejriwal government to enhance COVID-19 surveillance response in Delhi. Now, members will include DCP, Municipal DC, epidemiologists, District Surveillance Officer (DSO), IT professionals to watch Aarogya Setu.
Review, improvement of containment zone strategy
By June 26, the present containment zoning plan will be evaluated and prepare a revised containment zoning plan with an adequate number of buffer zones as per the Union Ministry of Health rules to be made.
“Once a zone is said as a container zone, it'll need to strictly follow the principles and active case search are going to be done inside the containment zone. There'll be a sufficient number of buffer zones around the container zone,” the Delhi government stated.
COVID positive patients and cluster cases in densely populated areas are going to be sent to COVID care centers. More teams are going to be created for contact searching, testing, and isolating patients.
Police are going to be deployed to make sure people maintain social distancing and don't get together in containment zones.
CCTVs and drones are going to be wont to monitor movement inside containment zones in Delhi. Those violating new norms are going to be penalized.
3.Strengthening contact tracing
As per the new COVID response to the Delhi government, high risk and low-risk contacts are going to be categorized as per the rules of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
A team is going to be deployed within the DM office for contact tracing. Field teams are going to be found out for fast and effective contact tracing and for quarantine of high-risk contacts.
“All symptomatic and asymptomatic high-risk contacts need to be tested between the fifth and tenth day of contact,” the rules state.
A serological survey will begin on June 27 and can be completed by July 10. As a part of this, 20,000 tests altogether districts are going to be administered.
Delhi's tally of Covid-19 cases crossed the 66,000-mark with the most important single-day jump of three,947 fresh infections, while the price thanks to the disease mounted to 2,301.

Tags : #Coronavirus #Delhi #Screening #Maharashtra #HealthMinistry #ArvindKejriwal

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