'Keep vigil on the third wave of COVID'
GUWAHATI:
Meeting with Assam DCs, SPs: Given the rising cases of the COVID-19 pandemic and its cascading effects on Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asked the Superintendents of Police in the districts to sternly enforce the preventive directives at the containment zones to reverse the surging trends of the pandemic.
In a video conference held at the conference room of the Chief Minister's office in Janata Bhawan here on Sunday with the Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police and Joint Directors of Health, the Chief Minister said that exhaustive compliance of preventive measures meant for the containment zones would go a long way in strengthening the containment of the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. He, therefore, asked the Superintendents of Police to enforce the directives at the containment zones declared in several parts of the State.
Chief Minister Sarma also asked the Deputy Commissioners of the districts to ensure delivery of critical care treatment to the COVID patients during odd hours in their respective districts. He also asked them to visit medical college hospitals and civil hospitals in their respective jurisdictions. Chief Minister Sarma also asked the DCs to fix responsibility on an ADC to oversee the vaccination drives undertaken in the districts. The ADCs should study and recommend the measures to be taken up to step up vaccinations in the districts. The Chief Minister also directed the SPs to ask the officers in charge of their respective police stations to visit the vaccination centres to ensure proper disciplines, including adherence to COVID-appropriate behaviour at the centres.
Chief Minister Sarma asked the DCs to do the arrangements of conveyance for transportation of COVID-positive patients from their homes to COVID care centres. He also asked them to declare more micro containment zones in their respective territories if the number of positive cases increases in their areas. He also asked the DCs to provide essential commodities worth Rs 2,000 to the poor people living in containment zones.
Stating that acting against the COVID is the primary task of the Government of Assam, Sarma said that the DCs, SPs, Joint Directors of Health and other stakeholders should work as a team in their respective districts to give people succour from the pandemic. Sarma also asked the civil and police administration to remain vigilant for the third wave, a press release said.