The Delhi government will conduct a door-to-door survey starting Friday to identify symptomatic people amid a surge in coronavirus cases in the national capital.
The survey will cover almost 58 lakhs of Delhi residents living in some 4,500 containment zones and also in areas outside the containment zones that have a large number of cases.
The AAP government has already hired several teachers from its schools to be part of the five-day exercise that begins today.
Delhi government teams will screen people, encourage more testing for Covid-19, and keep a registry of people at high risk, including older people, pregnant women, and people with comorbidities.
Almost 10,000 teams were formed
Today’s survey will likely start in around three of the 11 income districts in Delhi and then spread to 11 by the weekend. About 10,000 Delhi government teams have been formed in the 11 districts of the city.
Additionally, the physical parameters of those residents, including their temperature and oxygen saturation (SpO2), will be verified as part of the survey.
Following a meeting between the Union Interior Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, it was decided that the survey in Delhi will be conducted by AIIMS teams, the AAP government and municipal corporations, and all the symptomatic people found in the survey would be tested and provided the necessary treatment.
“Surveillance teams have been formed and deployed to conduct a door-to-door survey of all households in the hotspot and vulnerable areas of Delhi. The survey will be completed within five days and each team will survey 50 households each day.” said the government official.
“During the trip, the tied teachers will be in field service, so they will not be able to take online classes or other official duties,” the official added.
Meanwhile, Delhi registered 7,546 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total count to 5,10,630.
According to the city’s Health Department, 6,685 people recovered from the deadly virus today and total recoveries have now risen to 4,59,368.
The death toll from Covid-19 has reached 8,041 after 98 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. Active cases in Delhi amount to 43,221.
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