BMC officials swing into action as city witnesses spike in cases
Civic body puts special focus on 4 wards, takes steps to arrest spread of pandemic
Rise in the number of coronavirus cases has kept the ward officials up on heels. From visiting crowded places to sensitising housing society office bearers and even penalising those found violating COVID-19 norms, civic officials are leaving no stone unturned to keep coronavirus at bay.
Given the steady spike in the number of new COVID19 cases reported daily in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has turned its focus to four of the city's 24 administrative wards. Areas that have come under the civic radar are Borivali, Andheri east, Andheri west and Mulund, where the spike has been noticed, senior civic officials have said.
Apart from M West ward (Govandi, Chembur), where the ward officer has stepped up the containment measures to curb the spread, the BMC is also focusing on R Central ward (Borivli, Charkop), K East ward (Andheri East, Vile Parle), K West (Andheri West, Juhu, Versova) and T ward (Mulund).
According to senior civic officials, the number of cases reported in these four areas is rising and they do not want to take any chances but take immediate action to arrest the spread. Three of these four areas on civic body's radar have already been COVID hotspot for the longest time when the pandemic was at its peak.
Kishore Gandhi, Assistant Municipal commissioner of T ward said, "We have started going lenient on many things as the number of cases declined. However, citizens do not take COVID norms seriously. We have started stepping up the containment measures. Housing societies where cases are detected we personally meet the office bearers of the society and sensitise them and guide them on what should be done on their part. Our officials are regularly visiting places which get crowded. We are warning shops that are not following crowd controlling norms." Gandhi added, "We are getting 30-35 cases daily, however none of them are in clusters but scattered. Almost all the cases are in non-slum areas.”