MARGAO
After 13 persons inhabiting three houses at Bhatim-Shiroda testing positive for Coronavirus, South Goa district Collector, Ruchika Katyal, IAS on Thursday issued an order making a part of the Bhatim area as micro-containment zones.
The micro-containment zone comprise of part of Bhatim, Shiroda, near Akbar Mullas bungalow in the jurisdiction of Shiroda village panchayat.
In the order, the Collector has put in place an action plan to be carried out by the authorities to combat the situation. Screening of the suspects, testing of suspected cases, quarantine, isolation, social distancing and other public health measures in the micro-containment zones effectively have been mooted in the plan.
The Collector has ordered a host of activities in the micro-containment zones, including contact tracing.
Home or institutional quarantining of individuals based on risk assessment by medical officers. This risk assessment will be based on symptoms, contact with confirmed cases and travel history.
Testing of all cases with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), Influenza-like Illness (ILi) and other symptoms specified by MoHFW.
House to house surveillance by special teams constituted for this purpose.
To protect the frontline workers from the Coronavirus, the order has mandated that all the frontline workers shall be provided with all the equipment for personal protection such as PPE, N95 face mask, triple layered masks, gloves, hand sanitiser, liquid soap. They shall be provided with proper safety instructions to be adopted while on duty and after proceeding home to maintain all precautionary measures.
The Collector has warned of action under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and the IPC for any violation of the order.
