BMC taking steps to curb spread of COVID
   Date :10-Jan-2021

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Staff Reporter :
 
BHILAI,
 
The Bhilai Municipal Corporation has been gearing up to avert possibility of second wave of COVID-19 in city as twin cities, Bhilai and Durg have witnessed fresh cases of COVID-19 following New Year and other festive celebrations in the last couple of weeks. According to the information, the BMC authority in assistance with district health department to conduct regular health screening of the super-spreaders, including staffers of its various departments, sanitary workers, field employees, frontline workers and small-time vendors at market places, fearing a second wave of COVID-19 cases and rise in COVID-19 cases in city.
 
Recently, the BMC Commissioner, Rituraj Raghuvanshi has chaired a review meeting with zonal officers, health officials and nodal officers on the coronavirus situation in the city. On the other hand, the enforcement officials from BMC authority have been continued intense drive against Covidiots and begun penalising them for not wearing masks while in public to avoid the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19 hitting State, as well as district, in the late wintry season. In addition, the enforcement officials of BMC have been strictly directed to resume taking action against people not wearing masks and reluctant to obey social distancing in public places.
 
According to the information the BMC officials have been directed to ensure that there is no complacency in testing and said labs should be functional in every zone under the BMC limits. In the same context, the civic authority has intensified awareness drives while all the COVID testing centres and BMC run fever clinics also have been asked to made adequate arrangements at there to ramp up their capacity for early detection of cases. Moreover, the BMC officials have been discussing with the various Traders and Retailers Associations in city to draw up a plan for the screening of the shopkeepers, vendors and retailers, considering them super-spreader.