REVIEW MEETING RELATED TO NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS IN CONTAINMENT ZONES HELD

• RATION SHOULD BE PROVIDED TO NEEDY, LISTS TO BE PROVIDED BY POLICE DEPARTMENT: DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
• CONTAINMENT ZONES SHOULD HAVE MINIMUM AREA SO THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE GET AFFECTED: COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
• TEAMS FOR CHECKING WHETHER HOTELS & RESTAURANTS FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS TO BE FORMED

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Ludhiana, June 24: Under the Mission Fateh of the Punjab government and to check the spread of COVID 19, three containment and three micro containment zones have been declared in district Ludhiana. A meeting to review the necessary arrangements to be made in these zones was held at Bachat Bhawan, here today. This meeting was attended by Deputy Commissioner Mr Varinder Sharma, Commissioner of Police Mr Rakesh Kumar Agrawal, besides other officials.

During the meeting, the Deputy Commissioner directed the concerned SDMs and Assistant Returning Officers to provide ration to people staying in these zones on priority basis and the list of beneficiaries would be provided by the police department. The work of distribution of ration would be done by officials of Punjab Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department.

Mr Sharma informed that as per the directions of the health department, a district level committee comprising MC Additional Commissioner Mr Sanyam Aggarwal, Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Kumar Bagga, District Epidemiologist Dr Ramesh Kumar and Medical College head Dr Clarence Samual, to identify containment and micro containment zones have been formed in the district. He said that containment and micro containment zones are declared on the basis of recommendation of this committee.

Commissioner of Police Mr Rakesh Kumar Agrawal told the committee members that they should try to keep the area of containment/micro containment zone minimum so that no many people suffer due to restrictions to be enforced. He warned of strict action against people who are not following the directions of the health department. He said that surprise checks of hotels, restaurants and other places would be done to find out those who are not following directions of Punjab government. The Deputy Commissioner said that joint teams of excise department and police department would be formed. Similarly, checks of buses and autorickshaws would also be done.

Deputy Commissioner Mr Varinder Sharma said that the three micro containment zones declared today include New Model Town (street no 1, 2 & 3 behind Dhamija Medical Hall), New Janta Nagar (streets no 1, 2 & 3) opposite New Model Town and Bhamian Khurd (street no 1 to 4 in Krishna Colony). At these micro containment zones, 5, 11 and 11 positive patients have been found respectively. All these areas have been sealed and the concerned departments have been asked to take necessary action.