By Pavan Kumar Pateel Bengaluru: with the celebration season and crowd of crowded buyers in the country’s capital, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanaagara Palike (BBMP) Kuningan, alert that crowding can trigger a wave of third infection, has decided to conduct covid- 19 tests Visiting the KR market and surroundings from Monday.
Although the number of daily cases in Bengaluru ranges from 250 and 350 and deaths down to one or two, the BBMP does not want to take risks, given that the crowded KR market can be a cluster in a short time.
The decision to hold randomized tests was taken because many people were found not wearing masks or maintaining social distance on the market, BBMP source said.
At present, the BBMP health team has been sent to carry out random checks at the train station, bus holder, and other crowded areas.
From Monday, it will put the team on the KR market.
Thousands of vendors, migrant workers and others will be tested, said Gaurav Gupta, head of the BBMP commissioner.
In front of the celebration season, the BBMP has added and changed his team to enforce the Covid-19 protocol throughout the city.
It has mobilized bandages and volunteers from civil defense to help marshal in enforcing the right behavior on the market.
BBMP Health Officers have been asked to spread awareness about preventive measures mandated by their headquarters among the people, vendors and traders on festival days and the day before that.
Officials have been told to use a public address system to spread the awareness of the behavior that is in accordance with Covid, while the marshal that has been equipped with patrol vehicles, must instruct people in the appropriate behavior at the level of the zon.
Meanwhile, BBMP officials have crashed into plans to vaccinate migrant workers in several locations.
BBMP data shows that in the last 10 days (11 to 20 August), 4,73,380 people have been vaccinated within its limits.
On average, 45,000 people are inoculated every day.
The pukuyat plans to increase the number of vaccine doses given to 80,000 per day.
At least 400 people will be vaccinated in each of the 198 wards, Gupta said.
Given the fear of breakthrough infections, people must make the mask and guidance of social distance, Gupta asserts.