Coimbatore Corporation strengthens contact tracing exercise
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In an effort aimed at breaking the COVID-19 chain, the Coimbatore Corporation has strengthened the exercise to trace the contacts of persons who had tested positive.
Sources said, following instructions from Commissioner P. Kumaravel Pandian, the Corporation had deployed two employees in junior assistant rank to each of the 32 urban primary health centres for the exercise. Their job would be reach out to the positive persons, know about their workplace, other places they frequented and their travel history to identify primary and secondary contacts. After doing so, the junior assistants would pass on the information to the urban primary health centre concerned, from where people would get in touch with contacts to check if they had influenza-like infection.
Will ramp up testing and monitoring of quarantine areas
The Coimbatore Corporation shut the VOC Park, Gandhi Park and other parks in the city, in keeping with the State Government’s recent restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19, according to a release from the civic body.
The Corporation’s bus stands would remain closed from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., owing to the night curfew. Ambulance and other vehicles of the healthcare sector would be allowed to operate during this time.
During the total lockdown on Sundays, meat stalls, fish markets, vegetable shops, malls, cinemas, and shopping complexes would not be allowed to function. Restaurants and other eateries can function from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., noon to 3 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. to provide only parcel service.
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From Wednesday, wholesale onion traders would function from Eru Company, Commissioner P. Kumaravel Pandian said on Tuesday after inspecting the MGR Wholesale Market and a few other places.
Officials, who accompanied him, said the shifting was to decongest the MGR market to ensure traders and visitors adhered to COVID-19 safety protocol.
The Corporation considered the possibility of moving them to the Mettupalayam Road bus stand, as it had done in 2020 when the lockdown was in effect, but decided against it because the bus stand was in use.
The Corporation chose Eru Company because wholesale tomato traders from the Market continued to use a portion of the bus stand. Asking the onion traders to move to the bus stand would decongest the Market, and lead to overcrowding in the bus stand.
Coimbatore: Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis M Venkatesan on Tuesday visited the family members of a sanitary worker, who died in a road accident while on duty on Monday, at their house at Ukkadam in the city. He also handed over a cheque for a sum of Rs 1 lakh to the victim’s parents as a relief fund.
Around 5.30am on Monday, sanitary worker T Prakash who was working with the city corporation on a contract basis died on spot in a road accident while he was cleaning the roads of Chettipalayam.
The National Commission of Safai Karamcharis took note of the accidents and sent a letter to city corporation commissioner P Kumaravel Pandian.