GHMC to shut Covid house clusters

The GHMC is all set to stop designating or managing any containment cluster in the city. This decision is learnt to have come in the wake of the corporation's frustration with the state health department that, GHMC officials say, has not been providing details of newly identified Covid19 patients or their whereabouts in the city.

“At first, the data sharing was delayed by two days. This has now grown into a week. We are still operating containment areas based on the data shared by the health department last week,” a senior GHMC official, seeking anonymity, said.

The GHMC itself appears to be in no mood to take up containment activities and has reduced the house clusters in which Covid-19 patients have been identified by 50 per cent in the last two days.

The corporation which claimed there were over 1,100 containment clusters on Friday, said this number was cut down to 626 on Monday.

GHMC officials said that the corporation would remove all containment clusters, adding that all primary and secondary contacts of any Covid-19 patient “should take care of themselves.”

The GHMC has removed all containment clusters in the Serilingampally zone despite it having 35 active cases. It maintained 79 house clusters with 80 active cases in LB Nagar zone, 345 house clusters with 692 active cases in Charminar zone, 31 house clusters with 39 active cases in Khairatabad zone, 120 house clusters with 194 active cases in Secunderabad zone and 51 house clusters with 131 actives cases in Kukatpally zone.

● THE GHMC claimed there were over 1,100 containment clusters on Friday and it was cut down to 626 on Monday

● GHMC OFFICIALS said that it would remove all containment clusters

From Page 1 “Workers deployed on Covid19 duties have been asked to revert to their normal duties, which includes tax collection, participating in tree plantation programmes, demolition of dilapidated buildings. All engineering officials were asked to focus on roads and other infrastructure projects to expedite them, the sources said. “Though we are strictly following ICMR and health department guidelines, containment zone management is increasingly becoming difficult,” the sources added.