COVID19: Quarantine Center at Hotel, BMC acquires 10,000 rooms

COVID19: Quarantine Center at Hotel, BMC acquires 10,000 rooms

In Mumbai, cases of corona virus infection are increasing rapidly. Meanwhile, BMC has accelerated the high risk contact tracing campaign. It is hoped that under this scheme BMC will be able to check more and more people.

                                         10,000 rooms of hotels will be made quarantine The center

BMC Commissioner Praveen Pardesi said that under this scheme BMC has acquired more than 10 thousand rooms of hotels in the city.

According to the plan, in crowded areas where it is difficult to do home quarantine,
the people there will be kept in these hotels. The Worli area of Mumbai, which is currently
the worst affected, has reached 100 positive cases.

According to the plan, in crowded areas where it is difficult to do home quarantine,
the people there will be kept in these hotels. The Worli area of ​​Mumbai, which is currently
the most affected, has reached 100 positive cases. The BMC will also train the staff on how
to work with social distancing.

Cleanliness is the biggest challenge in the Hospital

Till now BMC had authorized places like marriage hall, school and temple where people were
quarantined. But later a complaint came from many places that cleanliness is not taken care of
here and people are facing a lot of trouble.

118 people from Koliwara were kept at Poddar Hospital in Worli. Recently, a video of that
hospital went viral, in which it can be seen clearly that the people who were quarantined
have been kept in dirty condition. After this video appeared on social media, the poll of
BMC system opened.

Meanwhile, thermal screening of 5144 people was done at Worli Koliwara on Tuesday.
Twelve people were found to have severe hunger. This campaign will be continued tomorrow
also, under which the target is to conduct thermal screening of all people. This is the second
such campaign in Worli Koliwara.

So far, about 200 people with high risk contacts have been shifted to hotels

Figure exceeds 1000 in Maharashtra :
In Maharashtra, on Tuesday, 150 new cases of corona virus infection have been registered
in 24 hours, while 6 people have died here. At the same time, there have been more than
1000 infected cases in Maharashtra so far. Only 100 new cases have been reported in
Mumbai on Tuesday.

More than 4500 Corona cases across the country :
The number of cases of corona virus in India has crossed 4500. So far 124 people have lost
their lives due to this virus. There are about 4,300 active cases, while 352 have been cured.