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Mayabunder, June 30: Soon after taking over the charge of the District Commissioner, North and Middle Andaman, Dr. Angel Bhati Chauhan, has taken possible steps to close the doors of entire North and Middle Andaman for Corona Virus.
In the war against Nobel Coronavirus , several concrete steps have been taken in the region under her directions, be it from securing the entry points to door to door survey of the residents.
Dr. Angel Bhati Chauhan’s first conversation with Andaman Sheekha sheds light upon the steps taken by her to contain the virus from spreading in the region.
She briefed that since the first positive case in the region was detected on 21st June 2020, immediate steps were taken, and the people who came in the contact with the COVID19 patient, were identified and quarantined. Samples were also taken of the closed relatives of the affected person and have been sent to Port Blair for testing.
The DC, North, and Middle Andaman added that at all the entry points in the region, whether its Helipad, Port etc screening of the people has been made mandatory, “If anyone found symptomatic during the screening they are kept under observation for 14 days,” said Dr. Angel Bhati Chauhan.
The Deputy Commissioner further added that the District Administration has also started a process of testing people door to door so that they get the input of people having fever, cough etc and upon receipt of the input such people also asked to go through the same procedure of testing and observation. If such people do not get normal in two-three days the district administration ensures sending their samples to Port Blair for testing,” Dr. Chauhan said.
“All required things reach the doorstep of the people under quarantine are taken care of by the district administration so that they obey the rules, local field staff, and local pradhan are in touch with those, control room also calls the quarantine people every day to check whether they are in some need,” she added.
The DC finally said that after doing so much if any person under quarantine violates the quarantine rules, there are provisions of penalizing him/her.
Earlier, Dr. Angel Bhati Chauhan was holding the important posts of the Director, Information, Publicity & Tourism as well as several other posts at Port Blair and her work performance was highly appreciated by the people at Port Blair.
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