Now Essential Commodities shops to open from 10 am to 2 pm across Pune till May 3
Pune, April 27, 2020: The Pune city police have given some relaxation in timings of essential commodities shops till May 3. The decision was taken today as the strict curfew date was getting over. Today Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) extended the containment zone order for Pune city till May 3.
Accordingly, Pune Police Jt CP Ravindra Shisve issued order stating that all essential commodities shops like grocery, vegetables, chicken, mutton, etc will be allowed to open between 10 am to 2 pm. Earlier in some areas, shops were allowed to open only for two hours from 10 am to noon. The number of Coronavirus positive patients have increased to about 1200 in Pune city.
The Inter Ministerial Central Teams formed by MHA under Disaster Management Act, 2005, have reached their stated states and started working. We wanted to share the expertise of team members, consisting of senior administrative officers, disaster management experts and public health experts, with the states, so that both Centre and states can fight against COVID-19.
The Pune IMCT visited Pimpri-Chinchwad, Haranwadi and Baramati containment zones. They also visited shelter camps of migrant labourers, vegetable markets, PDS shops, Zilla Parishad control room, nagar nigam war room, hospitals etc. ICMT found that COVID-19 doubling rate at Pune is 7 days, a little higher than the rest of the country and every 9 samples are found to be COVID-19 positive in Pune, while in the rest of India every 23 samples are found to be positive. IMCT has advised that high-risk persons should be identified fast; testing and surveillance should be increased and also contact-tracing is to be done fast. It is necessary to enforce protocols at places like slums and markets where social distancing is not being followed properly. Institutional quarantine instead of home quarantine should be stressed upon for slum areas. Many doctors, paramedics, police personnel, emergency items and service providers, vegetable and fruit shop owners have been found to be COVID-19 positive. It is of concern since these people meet a lot of people every day. IMCT has suggested that following of lockdown guidelines may be ensured so that they don’t fall prey to COVID-19 and become source of the virus unknowingly. The IMCT has interacted with Maharashtra CM, Maharashtra Home Minister and senior officers through video conferencing.
