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DC directs strict restriction in red zones of Kupwara

KUPWARA, JUNE 25: Deputy Commissioner (DC), Kupwara Ansul Garg convened a joint meeting with the officers of Health Department , BDC Chairpersons and Panchs & Sarpanchs, here today. The meeting discussed threadbare ongoing containment measures for COVID-19 in the district.
The meeting took various decisions to ensure added efforts at ground level so as to make the distict COVID free in near future.
The Deputy Commissioner directed the concerned officers to completely restrict the in and out movement of the people in the red zones of the district.
He further directed the concerned health officers to speed up the testing process in red zones as well as in other areas to cover the target public with in a stipulated time . The Deputy Commissioner asked PRIs, panchs and Sarpanchs to mobilize their efforts in the red zones and motivate people to voluntarily come forward for conducting of COVID-19 tests.
The Deputy Commissioner asked Chief Medical Officer Kupwara Dr kousar and other concerned officers to personally visit the red zones and chalk out the programme for testing of the target people there.