Focus on border areas as Chittoor logs 740 new cases

The unprecedented spike within the COVID-19 cases in Chittoor district over the last one month, with 740 cases on Saturday, has stored the district administration on heels.

Deputy District Medical and Health Officer P. Ravi Raju, together with COVID-19 Task Force officers, has inspected the continued vaccination drive on the group well being centres at Nagari and Puttur, and the first well being centres in Nagari meeting constituency limits. “As per instructions from the District Collector, we have been focussing on the border areas in eastern mandals,” the official mentioned. Saturday’s tally was the very best the district has seen since September final.

Mass vaccination drives as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name for ‘Tika Utsav’ from April 11 to 14 can be adopted by consciousness campaigns in all susceptible mandals highlighting the significance of COVID-19 protocols, he mentioned.

“At present, we have 20,000 doses of vaccine, and additional stocks are arriving for the special drive. All the eligible persons (every one aged above 45) will be covered,” he mentioned, assuring the general public that the district has sufficient shares of vaccine.

All the non-public hospitals have been instructed to ship a listing of symptomatic individuals to the respective space authorities to expedite detection of cases, aside from tracing the first and secondary contacts. The medical retailers have been strictly warned to not promote medicines for COVID signs with out prescription from a professional medical personnel.

“In coordination with the police, special teams would be monitoring the facemask and sanitizer rule at all public places, in view of the spurt in the cases,” Dr. Ravi Raju mentioned.