Thane, (thestates.news) Maharashtra Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta emphasised on the importance of contact tracing to curtail coronavirus during his meeting with senior officers in the district and also reviewed COVID-19 situation and the various measures taken to combat it in the district.
He was appraised about the availability of the beds in the hospitals and the facility for quarantine and isolation and the proposed additional beds in the meeting held on Friday.
He was also informed about the cases of the COVID-19 in the district and city.
During the meeting, the CS emphasized the need for contact tracing in the district and he also asked the officials to increase the surveillance in the district to trace out the patients.
He wanted the implementation of contact tracing, containment zones and hospital management to be done in the right manner.
Mr. Mehta also reviewed the work of Thane Municipal Corporation against the backdrop of Corona and directed to increase contact tracing, increase the scope of containment zone and implement it strictly and pay attention to hospital management. On this occasion, Principal Secretary of Urban Development Department (2) Mahesh Pathak, Principal Secretary of Health Department Dr. Pradeep Vyas, Divisional Commissioner Lokesh Chandra, Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar, Municipal Commissioner Vijay Singhal and District Collector Rajesh Narvekar were present.
At the beginning of the meeting, a presentation was made on the action taken by Thane Municipal Corporation over Corona situation. Then, Chief Secretary of the state Ajoy Mehta reviewed the work done to contain Corona on the basis of the ward committee. Interacted with the Assistant Commissioner. He also said that the chain of corona can be broken only if contact tracing of at least 20 people of each corona infected person is done. In particular, in the slums do not quarantine at home under any circumstances, they should be sent to the municipal quarantine center. At the same time, instructions were given to increase the scope of the containment zone and implement it strictly.
Mr Mehta said hospital management is an important issue and send as many people as possible to COVID Care Center so that oxygen beds are available to those in need.uni
