BMC forms committees to keep eye on slums
Bhubaneswar: With the city’s slums reporting one or two Covid cases on a daily basis, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has formed slum committees to keep a check on people’s movement there.
“Slum committees are empowered not only to generate awareness but to alert surveillance team about clandestine entry of people from hotspot districts. We are providing them with technical guidance,” said BMC commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhury.
A total of 330 people from slums are in institutional quarantine. The BMC hopes that by forming slum committees, the Covid curve will be flattened during the 14-day lockdown.
As many as 21 slums out of 436 have reported 190 Covid cases. The first locality to report a case was Salia Sahi. So far, only five slums have come under containment.
On Tuesday, the city reported 21 cases, its lowest in the past one week. Of them, 15 have been reported from quarantine (home and institutional). Six are local cases.
The new areas that have reported quarantine Covid cases are Saradhapali basti near Amri, Kolathia and Unit-VI. New areas to report local cases are Chandaka.