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Delhi - The Stateman 25 06 2020 Page 2 PDF
Delhi - The Stateman 25 06 2020 Page 2 PDF
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s part of the AAP govt's national capital. ed the Radha Soami Beas FILE PHOTO
revised Covid At the virtual meeting it was facility and held discussions
response plan, all con- decided that Delhi will conduct with the Delhi government and centre, he said. carried out engineering works
tainment zones will be serological test of 20,000 sam- other stakeholders, who will The ITBP was the first and installed hydrants to con-
reviewed, redesigned by 26 ples from June 27. be partners in running this organisation in the country nect an underground reser-
June and the screening of Amit Shah also directed centre. to have created a 1,000-bed voir to which clean Ganga
every house in these zones will the Delhi government to alert Union home minister Amit quarantine centre for coron- water would be provided to
be done by 30 June. the ministry on each death with Shah had yesterday said the avirus-affected people. The patients and the health care
The move comes as Delhi details of the patient. It also said centre has been entrusted to centre in Chhawla area of staff.
on Tuesday overtook Tamil patients with no comorbidi- the ITBP. “The force took South-west Delhi has treat- The DJB will collect water
Nadu on Sunday as the second ty can be kept in home isola- over the Covid-19 care cen- ed about 1,200 people, includ- samples five times a day and
worst-hit state by the pan- tion. tre at Radha Soami Beas in ing 42 foreigners who were check the water quality.
demic after Maharashtra. The On June 18, the Home Min- Chattarpur, New Delhi on brought to India on special In a statement, Chadha also
national capital now has 66,602 ister reviewed the situation in Wednesday. The home min- evacuation flights fromWuhan said the DJB has appointed
cases with the biggest single- the National Capital Territo- istry had nominated ITBP as in China and Italy, after the a nodal officer to ensure prop-
day jump of 3,947 fresh infec- ry. On June 14, Amit Shah the nodal agency to provide Covid-19 outbreak few months er water supply there.
tions and 2,301 deaths. held two high-level meetings doctors and team of other pro- back. The facility is still oper- The underground reservoir
Currently, there are 261 on management of the wor- fessionals to this centre as ational and is taking care of facility along with the installed
containment zones in the rying COVID-19 situation in requested by the Delhi gov- those ITBP troops who are join- hydrants will be of 1,70,000
Capital. Delhi. ernment,” an ITBP officer ing work after the countrywide litres. Chadha said this was the
“More than 2,500 new cases The first meeting was said. It is expected that a lockdown. first of its kind venture where
and upto 75 deaths (are) being attended by Delhi’s Lieutenant 2,000-bed facility will be oper- The ITBP also created the three partners were working
reported every day (in Delhi). Governor Anil Baijal, Chief ational at the centre from 26 first standard operating pro- together to build this Covid
About 45 per cent of the cases A woman during rapid test at a municipal school in the Capital on Wednesday. SNS Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Union June, another officer said. cedures (SOPs) for manage- care facility.
(in containment zones) are Health Minister HarshVardhan The total bed capacity may go ment of the pandemic among “It is a textbook example
showing signs of clustering itor the Aarogya Setu. More teams will be created for Plan’.The state task force will and top officials of the Union up to 10,200. This will be the the various CAPFs and cen- of perfect partnership. The
in containment zones,” the “Once a zone is declared as contact searching, testing and be headed by the Chief Min- Home and Health Ministries, largest Covid-19 care centre tral and state police organi- Arvind Kejriwal government
Delhi government said. a container zone, it will have isolating patients. In contain- ister Arvind Kejriwal. while the second was with in the national capital as well sations. The 90,000 person- is carrying out all the man-
As per new rules, Aarogya to strictly follow the rules and ment zones, movement will be The new rules come a week with mayors and commis- as the country, he said. nel strong force is primarily agerial, administrative and
Setu App has to be installed by active case search will be done restricted by police by use of after a string of meetings sioners of Delhi’s three munic- More than 1,000 doctors tasked to guard the 3,488 km engineering works. The cen-
all, especially by those in the inside the containment zone. CCTV cameras and the state between Union Home Minis- ipal corporations. The Delhi of the ITBP and other Central long Line of Actual Control tral government is providing
containment zones. There will be a sufficient num- government has planned to step ter Amit Shah and the Delhi CM. government was then asked to Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) (LAC) with China. medical personnel through the
Surveillance team will now ber of buffer zones around the up efforts for “testing and iso- Amit Shah, for the third time increase testing. and 2,000 paramedics and Meanwhile, Delhi Jal Board ITBP and the Radha Soami Sat-
be strengthened at the district container zone,” the Delhi lation”. “Rapid antigen testing last week, reviewed the Coro- The string of meetings security staff are expected to (DJB) vice chairperson Raghav sang Beas has provided the
level and the members will government stated. will be done in such areas as navirus situation in Delhi on come in the backdrop of the be deployed at this facility, the Chadha today visited facility and the space," Chad-
include DCP, Municipal DC, epi- Coronavirus positive per the guidelines of the ICMR Sunday with Chief Minister apex court’s unambiguous rap officer said. the 10,000-bed Covid care ha pointed out.
demiologists, District Sur- patients and cluster cases in (Indian Council of Medical Arvind Kejriwal and Lieu- on June 12, calling the handling The South Delhi district centre at the Radha Soami Sat- The AAP leader said he has
veillance Officer (DSO), IT densely populated areas will Research),” according to the tenant Governor Anil Baijal and of the situation “horrendous, administration will provide sang Beas campus. requested CM Kejriwal to
professionals, who will mon- be sent to COVID care centres. new ‘Delhi Covid Response discussed recommendations horrific, and pathetic”. administrative support to the Chadha said the DJB has inaugurate the facility.