COVID-19 surge | Make special arrangements for children: U.P. CM
The Hindu
Policy of trace, test and treat yielding good results, says Yogi Adityanath
Public compliance and policy of trace, test and treat were yielding good results against COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday days after the World Health Organization mentioned the State’s house-to-house campaign in rural areas to contain transmission. To check the spread in villages, the State government has recently started a testing and vigilance campaign in more than 97,000 revenue villages. It has deployed 1,41,610 teams and 21,242 supervisors from the Health department to ensure all rural areas are covered, said the WHO on May 7 in a report titled, UTTAR PRADESH Going the last mile to stop COVID-19. WHO, which supported the government in training and micro planning for the campaign, said it now has field officers on the ground to monitor and share real-time feedback with the government for immediate corrective action to ensure quality.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.