The Delhi Government has directed all the district magistrates to document initiatives taken by them to deal with novel Corona virus in their respective areas. The DMs have been asked to mention the difficulties they are facing combating the spread of the virus. A senior government official said several districts have taken effective steps to ramp up medical infrastructure to take other measures, including an application for robust surveillance and testing facilities on a bus.
On Sunday, Delhi reported 1573 cases of Corona infected with 37 casualties.
Interestingly, with increase in testing, many area are under the tag of containment zones according to State ( Delhi ) health officials. Till now 652 areas have been notified as the Red Zone.
The South Delhi district administration ha set up 10,000-bed Sardar Patel COVID care centre, one of the largest such facilities in the world, at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas. It has approached several agencies to set up this facility.
Similarly, a 500-bed COVID care facility was set up at the Commonwealth Games Village in East Delhi. Also, in North West district, railway coaches were converted into isolation wards for COVID-19 patients.
While in many districts, hotels have been attached to
COVID care facilities. An artificial intelligence-enabled coronavirus mobile testing clinic bus was launched to make it easier for the patients.
"The need was felt to showcase all such initiatives taken by the district magistrates so that their efforts are reflected in documents.
"All the DMs have been asked to make proper documentation of these initiatives introduced by them to deal with the COVID-19 situation,” a government official said.
He said that although no deadline has been fixed for District Magistrates (DM) to prepare such documents, they have been asked to come up with it as soon as possible.
"Authorities in districts are busy with routine works to ensure all things are in order. We will soon prepare a detailed document of initiatives taken by us and submit the same," said a district magistrate who did not wish to be named.
Another DM said that they will submit their report in the next 15 days.
On Saturday, Delhi recorded 1,781 fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the tally in the city to over 1.1 lakh, while the death toll from the disease climbed to 3,334.
Thirty-four deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the Delhi health department bulletin. On June 23, city had reported the highest single-day spike of 3,947.
