The Covid-19 situation “is in control” in Mumbai with the number of positive cases daily being reported below 1,500, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has said
Current Affairs : The COVID-19 circumstance “is in
control” in Mumbai with the quantity of positive cases day by day being accounted for under 1,500, a senior authority of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said.
Ordinary, 6,000 to 7,000 tests are being done and the vast majority of the residents are following the security conventions, extra city official Suresh Kakani told PTI.
The city has been day by day revealing under 1,500 COVID-19 cases since the last numerous days.
“The circumstance is in charge,” Kakani said.
After the flare-up of COVID-19 in the city, the BMC focussed on ghetto pockets by following high hazard contacts and sending them to isolate focuses, and in the event that they tried positive, they were kept at disengagement offices, he said.
In the ghetto zones, the BMC made strides like house-to-house reviews for discovering indicative patients, setting up fever centers and X-beam vans, taking assistance of nearby specialists and giving them all clinical hardware and incessant sanitisation of normal latrines, he said.
Kakani said the community body will currently concentrate on private structures and lodging social orders for bringing issues to light about cleanliness, neatness, social separating, need to wear veils and sanitisation of normal zones like lifts, flights of stairs, halls and latrines.
Rules will before long be given for lodging social orders to guarantee they don’t permit pariahs without covers, he said.
There ought to be courses of action for warm screening and hand sanitisers at the passage of lodging social orders and individuals ought to be ready even at home, he stated, including that the BMC additionally has the errand of concentrating on rainstorm related diseases.
Kakani additionally said that Ganesh mandals in the city have been approached to keep the Ganpati celebration festivities basic and serene this year and spotlight on social assistance.
The city body has thought of an idea of ‘one ward-one Ganpati’ and left it to the neighborhood specialists to accept an approach it, he said.
Vishwas Mote, the right hand civil magistrate of K-West ward, which covers Andheri-West, Juhu, Versova and other unmistakable regions, a week ago engaged the Ganpati mandals in his ward to follow the ‘one ward-one Ganpati’ idea
The 10-day celebration starts on ‘Ganesh Chaturthi’, which falls on August 22 this year.
On Tuesday, Mumbai’s COVID-19 count rose to 1,03,262 with the expansion of 995 new cases, while the loss of life expanded to 5,814 after 62 additional patients surrendered to the disease, as per the BMC.
Aditi Mehta 