- DC AND CP FORMULATE TWIN STRAGETY TO COMBAT CORONA HEAD ON
Jalandhar, April 26( Wishavwarta)- By ensuring 100% contact tracing of Covid 19 patients aggressively in the district, Jalandhar administration has been able to check the threat being posed by the, undetected, Corona virus positive patients amongst the society to a larger extent.
As the cases related to Corona Virus started surging the district, the Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma and Commissioner of Police Mr. Gurpreet Singh Bhullar evolved a major strategy to combat this pandemic head on by adopting twin strategy. As part of this strategy, the Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Police asked the Health department to launch an aggressive drive for Swab Throat Tests in the district, so that the untraced or undetected Covid 19 patients could be detected and kept in isolation so that spread of this virus could be checked. Likewise, they also constituted a hi-powered committee under the leadership of Additional Deputy Commissioner Mr. Vishesh Sarangal with the officers of civil and Police administration as its members.
The Committee was entrusted the task of identifying the contacts of identified Covid 19 positive patients, by use of technology and human intelligence, so that they could be tested and if found positive could be isolated for checking the spread of the pandemic. The Committee which operated 24X7 gave the desired results by tracing 709 contacts of the Corona positive patients in the district and ensuring their tests by Health department, due to which the tally final touched the figure of more than 60. It was hard work of the committee that chains of major Covid 19 patients were established and subsequently after the tests by health department the positive patients were isolated as they could have become potential threat to the society.
The meticulous working of committee ensured that more than 60 Covid 19 positive patients who were in contact Mr. Baldev Singh, Mr. Deepak Sharma, Mrs. Kavita Mahajan, late Mrs. Kuljit Kaur, Mr. Jasbir Singh and Mrs. Swarnkanta were able to come into light. Had the committee not done its job meticulously most of these patients would have roamed freely in the society thereby proving to be major threat to the lives people besides enhancing the numbers of Covid 19 affected patients manifolds. The committee was still doing its job to trace even the last Covid 19 affected patient in the district.
Meanwhile, complementing the Committee for its hard work and meticulous planning the Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Police said that in this war against Corona Virus, the committee’s yeoman role would go down into annals of history book. Both the officers said that district administration in general and committee in particular would carry on its efforts until Covid 19 was completely eradicated from district. They also exhorted the people to stay home for supplementing the untiring efforts being made by the administration.