After Agra Model, Center highlights Bangalore War Room Model to deal with Covid; Know what this model is -

New Delhi, April 13: In one of its appropriate stance in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly corona virus, the health Ministry on Monday highlighted the Banglore War Room Model justly to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier the day, the Central Government had noted the Agra Model that kicked in early in the Covid-19 outbreak cycle when six patients tested positive on March 3.

 

 

A proactive approach in identifying cases, intensive testing, door-to-door surveys and strict quarantine measures helped Agra successfully arrest the spread of Covid-19. At the time, the whole country had only 30-odd cases. The city administration followed the strategy of drawing up a list of those back from foreign travel and identifying their family and other close contacts. The neighbourhood where patients lived were declared hotspots, with a three-km radius around them acting like a containment zone and a five-km radius area as the buffer zone.

 

A war room was established in the Agra Smart City office in mid-March, where 7,000 complaints have been heard till date. The identification and sealing of hotspots under a micro plan was removed after all patients from the area tested negative signifying that all patients of that area were cured. Initially, 38 hotspots were identified by Agra administration, of which 10 have been sanitised. Currently, there are 28 hot spots in the city.

 

 

The Banglore War Room Model involves stamping all those in home quarantine, and tracking their mobile phones through their GPS location. "We are taking the help of police. If they are going beyond the containment zone, we will call them and ask them to go back home. The police will send us their names and tracking details", the war room officials said.

 

 

 

-Keeping vigil on those infected and ensuring that it does not spread.

 

-Collecting information on all arriving from abroad and keeping track of them.

 

-Calling every day and keeping track of those who are on home quarantine for 15 days.

 

-War room staff to work 24/7 in three shifts.

 

-Using the format provided by WHO, the war room will be mapping the regions affected, measures taken and monitor the state of implementation.

 

-Collecting data on areas affected, families and people residing in them and so on

  

Also the war room consists of 24/7 Command and Control Centre to display dashboard with information gathered through 2.0 application forms on complaints, those redressed and those still pending, segregate complaints division-wise and department-wise, keep ward-wise information available on road works, road cutting for OFC cable laying works, and so on. The Corona cases in India have surged up to 9353 cases including 1097 recoveries and 328 deaths. Meanwhile the number of total corona tests in India stands at 195748.

 

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