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Delhi: Domestic helps, daily wagers to be screened as AAP govt revises Covid response plan

Delhi will now enlist and screen for the novel coronavirus daily wagers, domestic helps, auto drivers and food suppliers as part of AAP government's revised ‘Covid Response Plan’. In Delhi, high-risk groups (HRGs) — those aged above 60 or having comorbid conditions — will be enlisted and screened through house-to-house surveys in containment zones, buffer zones and areas with isolated cases. As per the modified plan, Special Surveillance Groups (SSGs), including rickshaw pullers, auto drivers, taxi drivers, domestic helps, plumbers, electricians, carpenters etc, and those who supply essentials, parcels and posts will be enlisted with the help of municipal corporations, transport department, resident welfare associations and police. «If a positive case is found in the SSGs, the patient should be taken care of as per the COVID protocol. His/her workplace and home should be immediately disinfected followed by enhanced surveillance and aggressive contact tracing,» the Delhi order read. The primary contacts in such cases should be traced and strictly quarantined for 15 days. The Delhi authorities have also called for organising an aggressive awareness programme and media campaign to popularise social distancing norms, hand hygiene and respiratory etiquettes in the SSGs. The district administrations have been asked to regularly visit or contact all the enlisted cases to assess their medical condition. House-to-house surveys will be conducted to detect cases of severe acute respiratory infection and influenza-like illnesses through Assess-Corona app.

Source: indiatoday.in