Active surveillance stepped up post relaxation of lockdown restrictions in Kallakurichi district

The Kallakurichi District administration has intensified door-to-door lively surveillance in city native our bodies and village panchayats and stepped up enforcement, post relaxations in the COVID-19 lockdown introduced by the federal government.

The COVID-19 administration plan includes intensified surveillance, strict monitoring of those that are below residence quarantine and ramping up of fever clinics, together with testing of individuals and rushing up the vaccination drive.

“Over 1,000 volunteers drawn from various line departments have been covering all households in town panchayats and village panchayats to identify Influenza Like Illness (ILI) cases,” District Collector P.N. Sridhar instructed The Puucho.

“Already, the daily testing rate has been increased to 3,000 and, on an average, more than 50 to 60 fever camps are being conducted across the district. The test positivity rate is less than 5%,” he added.

As half of pandemic prevention, we have now particularly requested the groups to go and verify on lively instances in ‘hot spot’ areas. Simultaneously, the administration has been concentrating on IEC actions to make sure that we don’t lose grip, Mr. Sridhar mentioned.

Vehicles fitted with public tackle programs, have been protecting all blocks to create consciousness among the many folks on the COVID-19 tips and the necessity for vaccination.

As many as 1.92 lakh folks out of the full eligible inhabitants of 10.5 lakhs have been vaccinated. “Now we are focusing on persons with disabilities. As many as 714 out of a total of 10,000 have been vaccinated so far,” he mentioned.

The Collector mentioned that the administration, on precedence, was additionally preparing a block geared up with oxygen-supported beds in the Kallakurichi Government Medical College and Hospital for therapy of COVID-19 sufferers.

The district has 669 oxygen beds of which about 115 are occupied.