Ernakulam Rural police scale up activities of COVID-19 control room
The Hindu
Facility, among other things, ensures that oxygen trucks reach destinations without hiccups
The Ernakulam Rural police have intensified measures to check the spread of the raging pandemic. The control room set up at the district police headquarters to coordinate the activities to fight the pandemic has been further scaled up. It collects the details of those testing positive every day in rural limits by contacting the Health Department and handover the details to police stations concerned. The control room has been entrusted with an assortment of tasks, including arranging the transportation of infected patients to either first-line treatment centres or hospitals, organising food and medicines for those in need, updating superior officials about the positive cases being reported.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.