Chandigarh.21 May,2020:
Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT Chandigarh, Sh. VP Singh
Badnore today presided over Daily War Room meeting. The meeting was attended by Sh. Manoj Parida,
Adviser, UT, Chandigarh and Sh. Sanjay Beniwal, Director General of Police at
Raj Bhawan. The Administrator also interacted with Sh. Arun Gupta, Principal
Secretary (Home), Sh. AK Sinha, Finance Secretary, Sh. KK Yadav, Commissioner,
Municipal Corporation and Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, Deputy Commissioner,
Chandigarh, Deputy Commissioners of
Mohali & Panchkula, Director-PGIMER, Director Health Services and Director
Principal, GMCH through Video Conferencing.
WAR ROOM DIRECTIONS
1.The Hon’ble Governor
of Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh expressed satisfaction about
substantial improvement in recovery rate of corona patients (77%) and doubling
rate at 39 days. The deaths have been
minimal, that too due to co-morbidities. He, however, expressed grave concern about the
rising number of positive cases in Bapu Dham Colony and an urgent meeting of
senior officers and doctors was called in the afternoon to decide new strategy
for Bapu Dham Colony. It was decided to
have a Local Sample Collection Centre in a school inside Bapu Dham Colony, so
that more testing could be done. The
Administrator directed all doctors and officers to devote their full energy and
resources in Bapu Dham Colony. He
suggested use of local volunteers to detect suspect cases and send them for
testing. He desired that there should be
aggressive and intensive screening of all pockets in the buffer zone and
wherever necessary, the people under risk could be taken to quarantine centres.
•Sh. Mandip Singh Brar,
Deputy Commissioner informed that essential items are being provided to the
people confined in containment zones. He
further mentioned that 69,088 cooked food packets have been distributed among
the destitutes and needy persons in various parts of the city and 2,94,592
persons have downloaded Aarogya Setu Applications in UT, Chandigarh.
•Sh. KK Yadav,
Commissioner, Municipal Corporation stated that necessary sanitization and
fogging is being done in various parts of the city. Water supply is also being augmented to meet
the summer demands.
•Sh. Manoj Parida,
Adviser stated that necessary arrangements are being made to screen passengers,
who will arrive in the city after regular bus, train and flights services are
resumed.
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