The Lt Governor stressed on conducting aggressive awareness campaign by District Administrations led by Deputy Commissioners, SSPs, Health Officers, especially in districts with fresh spurt of COVID cases.
For effectively combating the spread of COVID-19, the Lt Governor called for scaling up of testing and advised the officers to use the data available with ‘Swasthya Nidhi’ application for mapping and identifying the vulnerable population and the potential spreaders. He emphasized on extending the coverage of Aarogya Setu app and encouraging the people to download the said app.
He further sought details of the distribution of PPE kits to Private hospitals and directed for conducting online training of the technicians and staff of the private testing labs and clinics to eliminate laxity in the containment of the deadly virus. He also directed for expediting construction activities across the UT and engage more and more labourers while following all SOP’s.