25 commandos from state바카라s Special Armed Police have been roped in to enforce district wide 바카라triple lockdown바카라 in Covid-hit coastal village.
For near two days, the bustling coastal hamlet of Poonthura in Thiruvananthapuram district has worn a deserted look as a detachment of commandos from Kerala바카라s Special Armed Police (SAP) patrol the streets in the most dramatic scenes of Covid-19 protocol enforcement in the ongoing week-long 바카라triple lockdown바카라 imposed on the district.
The fishing village, situated 12 km south of the state capital, is being labelled a localised 바카라epicentre바카라 with some 119 samples out of 600 swabs collected from the area testing positive over the past week. Health officials have cautioned that Poonthura could be an emerging cluster outbreak in the state, with 120 primary contacts attributed to one patient, if stringent containment measures are not implemented.
The local media has reported that three wards in Poonthura have been designated critical containment areas and cordoned off while five wards acting as buffer zones. Besides the 25 commando boots on the ground, there are loudspeaker-mounted vehicles blaring 바카라stay at home바카라 orders to residents and prohibiting outsiders from breaching the cordoned-off area. As well, coastal police are preventing both entry by sea and fishing activities in the area, which is frequented by boats from Tamil Nadu as well.
Teams of health workers are disinfecting homes in the densely-populated village. 바카라Poonathura is one of the tightly-clustered localities in the city and is home to mainly low income families. Most of the residents are in rented homes that cover about one cent (about 40 sq.m.) and need to work for their food. For them, home quarantine was never going to be an option even given the seriousness of coronavirus. The commandos are needed to enforce the lockdown,바카라 said Sherly J, a former ward councillor.
Rationalising the use of commandos, state tourism minister Kadakampally Surendran, who has been tasked with overseeing the district바카라s pandemic control activities, called the area a 바카라super spreader바카라 hub. 바카라There has not been such a rapid spread of the disease in any other nearby region," he said. Ahead of the 바카라triple lockdown바카라 coming into force on Monday, Surendran had the state was 바카라sitting on an active volcano바카라 with community transmission appearing to look nearly certain.