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Bhubaneswar: As of now, Bhubaneswar city has reported more COVID-19 cases from non-slum areas as compared to the slum pockets. According to the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner, Prem Chandra Chaudhary 657 COVID positive cases have been reported from non-slum areas as against 201 cases from slums.
“We are laying more emphasis on slum areas which are more prone to outbreak. We are doing aggressive testing in the slums given their vulnerability,” said Chaudhary in a media briefing on Saturday.
Chaudhary further added that they are planning to increase testing in the city and have set a target to conduct 1400 tests per day.
According to BMC COVID Observer, Anu Garg, "BMC is maintaining active surveillance in the slum areas. Teams have been created to keep an eye on symptomatic cases and persons with travel history. As of now, 4 slums in Bhubaneswar have been declared containment zones due to detection of COVID cases."
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Sharing details about the COVID19 hospital capacity augmentation in Bhubaneswar, Garg informed, “We are making arrangements to add 1500 new beds in COVID hospitals in Bhubaneswar.”
BMC on Saturday reported 111 COVID positive cases which took the total tally of confirmed cases in Bhubaneswar to 1,828. As per BMC reports, 863 patients have recovered from COVID19 while the active caseload in the city is 952.
Update on newly detected & cured #COVID19 cases in the last 24 hrs under the BMC area on 25th July 2020(till 9am).
Further contact tracing is still continuing.
Primary contacts & nearby houses are being quarantined, sanitised & will be under active surveillance. pic.twitter.com/2reCdHoT9x— BMC (@bmcbbsr) July 25, 2020
From 111 cases reported today, 62 positive cases were reported from quarantine centres, while 49 were local contact cases. The city also reported 29 COVID-19 recoveries on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the civic body authorities have intensified their surveillance activities through antigen testing of vulnerable cohorts. BMC carried out antigen tests of the vendors of Unit-4 market today.
Continuing its efforts to check the spread of the virus, BMC today carried out the Rapid Antigen Test of the Unit-4 Market vendors.
The testing capacity is being increased to know the spread of the virus.#BbsrFightsCOVID pic.twitter.com/isoPg5pzM0
— BMC (@bmcbbsr) July 25, 2020
Moreover, BMC has also ramped up door-to-door surveillance. In a tweet, BMC informed (sic), “Door-to-door active surveillance continues by RRT teams across the city. In the slum areas, each & every household is surveyed, in case of any symptoms, they are being tested. In other areas, the home quarantinees are surveyed on a regular basis.”
Door-to-door active surveillance continues by RRT teams across the city.
In the slum areas, each & every household is surveyed, in case of any symptoms, they are being tested.
In other areas, the home quarantinees are surveyed on a regular basis.#BbsrFightsCOVID pic.twitter.com/Kp714vqxEl— BMC (@bmcbbsr) July 24, 2020
(Edited By Bikram Keshari Jena)
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