Residential Welfare Associations (RWAs) across the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area have joined hands with election authorities to support the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and boost voter awareness, officials said on Tuesday.
Under this agreement, NALCO Foundation—a trust settled by the Navaratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited—has committed an initial financial grant of Rs one crore for the first year.
As many as 14,00,349 beneficiaries have been given the first dose of the vaccine, while 12,48, 464 have received both shots in the city.
Out of the total fresh cases, 96 are children aged below 18 years. While 367 have been detected from the quarantine centres and 261 are local contacts, the information and public relation department said.
Dengue cases were initially confined to Niladri Vihar, Sailashree Vihar, and Chandrasekharpur areas that have spread fast to almost all parts of Bhubaneswar.
“There has been a sporadic outbreak of dengue in specific pockets of the city. There is immediate cause for alarm as the health department is maintaining strict surveillance on the situation”, Niranjan Mishra, director of Public Health.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation will spend Rs 20,000 per day, while Cuttack, Sambalpur, Rourkela and Brahmap.
The BMC Commissioner urged all 'COVID Sachetaks' to be on high alert for positive cases and do their reporting immediately and help the people under home quarantine to avail the supplies of essential commodities.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched the service to carry out swab collection.
The Zonal Deputy Commissioner (ZDC) concerned shall prepare the action plan for each ward under his jurisdiction and shall submit it for approval through the Deputy Commissioner (COVID-Cell).
