Coronavirus: PMC to start door to door survey from March 16
Pune, March 15, 2020: Rubal Agarwal, Additional Municipal Commissioner (General) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has informed that the squads in the municipal area will go from house to house from Monday (March 16) for the survey as part of the Containment Plan to prevent Coronavirus spread.
The squads include various officers and employees of the Municipal Corporation, including health inspectors, divisional health inspectors, medical officers and others. Each squad has 30 staffs and there are 125 such squads. They will visit homes of all Indians, foreigners who have returned from abroad in the last one month. The teams will give them medical advice.
Agarwal said that the teams will inform them about various measures to be taken for prevention of the spread of Coronavirus. They will be apprised of home-based separation as well as steps taken by the government. Also, if any symptom is found, they will be taken to Naidu Hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, Pune District Collector Naval Kishore Ram today clarified that except medical stores, grocery shops and outlets selling essential commodities in malls, all other shops will remain closed till March 31.
He also ordered the closure of all schools, colleges and other educational institutes, located adjacent to jurisdictions of PMC and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), to remain shut till March 31.
The state government has invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act to close all educational institutions, gyms, swimming pools, theatres, to stop the spread of Coronavirus. The total number of Coronavirus positive patients has reached 16 in Pune and for the state, it has reached 32. All over the country, there are 107 positive cases.
The Collector has also appealed IT companies and other industries to allow employees to work from home, wherever possible.
