Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba held a
meeting with Municipal Commissioners, District Magistrates of 13 COVID-19 hit
cities to take a review of the situation.
The meeting bears significance as these 13 cities are
considered to be the worst novel Coronavirus affected locations and constitute
about 70 per cent of the positive cases in the country.
The cities are Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Thane,
Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur.
The Chief Secretaries of all concerned States and Union
Territories attended the meeting.
The measures taken by the officials and the staff of the
municipal corporations for the management of COVID-19 cases were reviewed
during the meeting.
The central government has already issued guidelines on
management of COVID-19 in urban settlements.
Highlights of this strategy include work on high risk
factors, indices such as confirmation rate, fatality rate, doubling rate and
tests per million people.
Centre has stressed that containment zones are to be
geographically defined based on factors like mapping of cases and contacts and
their geographical dispersion.
This would enable in demarcating a well defined perimeter and
enforcing the strict protocol of lockdown.
The cities are advised that the area should be appropriately
defined by the district administration and local urban body with technical
inputs from local level.
