‘BBSR Covid cases rising due to people from hotspot dists’

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‘BBSR Covid cases rising due to people from hotspot dists’

Sunday, 12 July 2020 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR

Covid-19 cases in Bhubaneswar are rising due to people visiting the city from hotspot districts for healthcare and other purposes, said Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary on Saturday.

Overcrowded markets on Friday before weekend shutdown every week is another major concern for the BMC, he said.

“If we analyse, 317 Covid-19 cases have been reported in the city in last 10 days, of which 61 are linked to various hospitals. The cases, which had travel history and close contacts with infected persons, out of total cases in last 10 days are 212,” Chaudhary said.

“For cases where links have been established, we are now shifting the patients to Covid Hospitals, doing contact tracing and identifying the quarantine of direct and secondary contacts and carrying out sanitisation in the areas. But for cases where links could not be established, we are carrying out 14-day active surveillance, taking around 50 to 100 households to a nearby quarantine centre, conducting 100% testing of direct contacts, testing symptomatic indirect contacts and declaring containment zone if required,” he said.

The BMC has formed a slum committee that is carrying out house-to-house surveillance in slum areas, shifting symptomatic to institutional quarantine centres and conducting test to detect coronavirus. The Sachetak committee is supervising the awareness and enforcement of social distancing norms in slums. No home quarantine is allowed in slums, he said

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