Mumbai: With a steep increase in Covid cases entering from tall buildings in the city, BMC once again on Monday issued fresh guidelines for sealing the building.
The Civic body says that the entire building or building wings / complex must be sealed if more than 20% of the flats occupied in buildings or wings have Covid-19 patients.
BMC Executive Health Officer Dr.
Mangala Gomare said that the revised order of building sealing would take effect from January 4, Tuesday.
“Decisions that put the building or wings can be taken at their respective environmental levels,” BMC said circularly.
City corporation also said that carefully must be taken by the building manager committee to ensure that supplies or food, medicines and important things for families in quarantine.
The BMC protocol has so far been to seal buildings with five or more cases and positive floors if the case is less than five.
During the top and second wave peak, the police were also placed at times outside the building closed to limit the exit or entry.
Many residents of the large complex and rise high with hundreds of flats located in it have complained several times to BMC that the rules about community sealing if five people have been tested positively are major societies.
“Patients and contacts must strictly follow the guidelines for home insulation and hygiene etiquette when in the quarantine of the house.
The patient will be isolated for ten days since the onset of symptoms / testing (if the patient is asymptomatic) and there is no fever for three sustainable days.
High-risk contact must be Dikarantina for seven days.
They will be tested on the 5th day Ans 7th or immediately when they change the symptomatic and further protocol (being) followed based on their test results, “BMC said at the new round.
Goregaon Corporator Sandeep Patel said that the number of asymptomatic patients increased in buildings and had become a problem for RCCcern.
“Those who have absolutely no symptoms testing the positive Koronavirus, therefore it is important that the transmission is damaged,” Patel said.