Unique Covid-19 initiative in Yogi’s UP: Call helpline, get your area sanitized
Lucknow DM Abhishek Prakash said that any place, work station or apartment, where covid positive patients have been found, can use this service - 'Sanitization on call'
New Delhi: In the battle against Covid-19 pandemic, Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath is taking bold and wide-ranging measures to keep the virus spread under control.
Uttar Pradesh is already the highest Covid-testing state, with over 1.5 lakh sample testing in a day. On Tuesday, a unique initiative was launched in Lucknow to counter the menace of Covid-19. The Lucknow administration has launched ‘Sanitisation on one call service’ in which a person can call the helpline and get his area sanitized.
When a person tests COVID-19 positive in Lucknow, there will be sanitization in his area by placing just one call on the helpline number 0522-2307770.
The ‘Sanitisation on one call service’ was launched in the presence of Lucknow Divisional Commissioner Mukesh Meshram, District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash and other officials. Abhishek Prakash said that any place, work station or apartment, where covid positive patients have been found, can use this service.
A team of workers will reach there within a span of 12 to 24 hours and sanitize the place free of cost. DM Abhishek Prakash started the awareness campaign regarding the service by putting posters on the wall of the collectorate.
According to the Union Health Ministry estimates, Uttar Pradesh is among the five worst affected states with total of 61,625 active cases and 3,920 deaths in the state.
Yogi pushes for 2 lakh Covid-19 tests/day
Meanwhile, the chief minister has directed the health officials to increase the testing rate of COVID-19 up to 2 lakh per day in the state. So far, the state has tested over 50 lakh samples since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Out of over 50 lakh samples, 2, 40, 926 samples were tested in government laboratories through RT-PCR and CB-NAAT method, 1, 50, 883 in private laboratories, 23, 53, 460 samples have been tested through Antigen testing, 42, 950 through TRUENAT method at medical colleges, 83, 367 at district hospitals and 40, 119 samples at private laboratories, said a report.