Port Blair, April 30: The District Administration is working on war footing to contain the spread of Covid-19 and limiting the number of cases in South Andaman District and has taken various proactive and necessary measures/ precautions in order to   bring this pandemic to a halt.

District Control Room is working 24/7 tirelessly to redress public grievances related to Covid-19 including door to door delivery of medicine, Home Quarantine and Field Surveillance. It has also been carrying out follow up on Covid-19 patients and ILI/SARI patients. In these difficult circumstances due to pandemic, our priority is to solve each and every grievance.

District Administration has declared 11 containment zones. Round the clock monitoring and field surveillance in containment zones is being done and it is also ensured that there is no movement in or out of these zones. The Administration has adopted containment as a major approach to flatten the Covid-19 curve as per the directions issued by the Govt. of India from time to time.

The Deputy Commissioner (SA), Shri Suneel Anchipaka has requested general public to make sure that their near and dear ones above the age group of 45 get vaccinated and also urged them to follow COVID appropriate behaviour and help the Administration in its fight against the virus. He also urged general public to kindly come forward and report symptoms at the earliest for better treatment.

He further reiterated that the five-fold strategy of Testing, Tracing, Treatment, Isolation and vaccination will be meticulously implemented in South Andaman.