The Wayanad District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has decided to revise the criteria for declaring containment zones in a civic bodies in the wake of the accelerating COVID-19 positive cases.
Accordingly, a ward would be declared as containment zone if positive cases are reported in 10 or more houses a ward, District Collector Adeela Abdulla said. The medical officer of the civic body should give a proposal to the secretary of the body and the secretary, in turn, should submit it to the Collector through the COVID portal, Ms. Abdulla, who is also the chairperson of the DDMA, said.
“If more than half of the total wards of a grama panchayat are declared as containment zones, the entire civic body will be declared as a containment zone,” Ms. Abdulla added.
The medical officer can recommend to the secretary of a civic body declaration of a containment zone in an area if an epidemiological survey finds the possibility of a COVID cluster forming in the area.
As many as 130 wards in the district have been declared as containment zones or micro containment zones so far, she said.
Meanwhile, the district health department has issued an advisory to the authorities of old age homes, mental rehabilitation centres and mental healthcare centres in the district, cautioning them against the spread of COVID-19 in the wake of increasing institutional level COVID clusters in the district.
