Proceedings of the District Collector & Chairperson District Disaster Management Authority Thiruvananthapuram (Present: Dr. Navjot Khosa IAS) THE MAHATHA (Issued u/s 26, 30, 34 of Disaster Managenment Act-2005) DDMA/01/2020/COVID/CZ-104 Dtd: 12.12.2020 Sub CoVID 19-SARS-CoV-2 Virus Outbreak Management - Declaration and withdrawal of Containment Zone -directions and procedures - Orders issued - reg. Read I. GO(Ms)No.54/2020/H&FWD published as SRO No.243/2020 dtd 21.03.2020 2. Order of Union Governnment No 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) dated 01.05.2020 3. Order of Union Government No 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) dated 29.08.2020 4. GO(Ms) No. 106/2020/GAD dtd 01.06.2020 5. GO(Ms) No. 18/2020/DMD dtd 17.06.2020 WHEREAS, Covid-19, is declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation. The Government of India also declared it as a disaster and announced several measures to mitigate the epidemic. Government of Kerala, has deploycd several stringent measures to control the spread of the epidemic. Since strict surveillance is the only tool to prevent the occurrence of a community spread, the government has directed district administration to take all possible measures to prevent the epidemic. AND WHEREAS, SRO notification issued by Govt of Kerala as Kerala Epidemics Diseases, Covid 19, Regulations 2020 in official gazette stipulates that all possible measures shall be incorporated to contain the disease. AND WHEREAS, 3455 live cases are undergoing treatment in the district as on date, and epidemiological investigation is being carricd out in each case and their primary and secondary contacts is being traced for the effective containment of further transmission of disease. AND WHEREAS, new cases have been detected without any known source or link with COVID 19 patients or with any travel history, the district core group has recommended the following to be ineluded as containment zones. SI No LSGI Ward No, Name 19. Kudappanakunnu . Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Excluding Civil Station area at Kudappanakunnu 21. Chettivilakam AND WHEREAS, the containment zones in the was existing district analysed, based on the test conducted among the contacts and primary other containment activities it is evaluated that the spread of the disease is contained to a extent and the larger containment zones in the following wards are recommended to be withdrawn. No LSGI Ward No, Name 17. Pattom 25. Nanthencode 46. Aranoor 67. Ambalathara Thiruvananthapuram Corporation 73. Kuriyathy 74. Puthenpally 75. Manikavilakam 81. Thampanoor 95. Anamugham 2. Tholicode Grama Panchayath 02. Parappara 3. Kallikadu Grama Panchayath 11. Mylakkara AND the WHEREAS, District Authority has examined the matter in detail and is convinced that the requirement is genuine and urgent. NOW THEREFORE, I, Dr. Navjot Khosa IAS, District Collector & Chairperson of Distriet Disaster Management Authority under the powers vested with me as the District Authority to invoke the provisions envisaged in the sec 26, 30 and 34 of the Disaster Management Act 2005 and passes the order as follows. Order 1) The Containment Zone declared in the following areas are withdrawn based on the surveillance data evaluation. SI No LSGI Ward No, Name 17. Pattom 25. Nanthencode 46. Aranoor 67. Ambalathara 1. Thiruvananthapuram Corporation 73. Kuriyathy 74. Puthenpally 75. Manikavilakam 81. Thampanoor 95. Anamugham 2 No LSGI Ward No, Name 2. Tholicode Grama Panchayath 02. Parappara 3. Kallikadu Grama Panchayath 11. Mylakkara 2) The following wards in Thiruvananthapuram district are declared as containmentzone where the existing lockdown relaxations as per order cited 3 above shall not be applied and strict lock down measures shall continue until further orders. SI No LSGI Ward No, Name 19. Kudappanakunnu 1. Thiruvananthapuram Excluding Civil Station area at Kudappanakunnu Corporation 21. Chettivilakam 3) The wards adjoining these containment zone shall be treated as areas which needs special attention in a public health perspective. 4) Only essential activities will be allowed, ie shops selling essential groceries, medicines and food items like milk, vegetables, meat fish and essential services including Police, Health, Revenuc, LSG, Electricity Water supply and other essential central and state government establishments in containment zones and strict perimeter control will be enforced. The movement of persons in or out of the zones will not be permitted except for medical emergencies, maintaining supply of essential goods and services. 5) The Incident Commander and Tahsildar, of concerned Taluks shall ensure strict containment activities are being contemplated as per Government instructions. 6) SHO concerned shall ensure that proper barricading of the Containment Zone is made so as to regulate the movement of persons in and out of the containment zone. He shall also ensure the perimeter control and crowd control activities. 7) DPC (City) and DPC (Rural) shall ensure all guidelines issued by Government of India and Government of Kerala regarding the containment zones are complied with in letter and spirit. 8) Medical Officer/Superintendent of CHC Chettivilakam shall ensure the following. i. Shall coordinate with Police, Revenue and LSG for planning containment activitics, quaran tining the contacts for 14 days and ensure proper IEC. ii. Shall identify, isolate the positive patients and constantly monitor their health status over telephone. 3 ii. Shall conduct house to house ILI surveillance. listing of vulnerable, symptomatic persons pcople with high social contacts and sereen them using the HR available with the PHC with the help of Block PHC. iv. Shall update the details of positive and quarantined persons in Covid19 Jagrata portal and share the same with DDMA with a copy to DMO on a daily basis. V. Shall ensure strict enforcement of SMS, Break the Chain. Quarantining of contacts, Isolation of positives with help of police, revenue and LSGs. 9 Block Medical Officers of CHC Chettivilakam shall conduct daily monitoring of containment activities and submit a weekly report to the DDMA with a copy to DMO. 10) District Medical Officer shall ensure that Health activities planned as per the ref cited 3 is been implemented by the respective Medical Officers and effective supervision is done by the respective Block MOs. DMO shall furnish a daily progress report to this office by 8.00 PM every day through email ddmatvpm.rev@kerala gov.in. 11) This order will be reviewed every day and relaxation will be allowed once in a week. District Colleetor& Chairperson District Disaster Manàgement Authority Thiruvananthapuram Copy to: 1. Commissioner, Disaster Management, Govt of Kerala 2. Member Secretary KSDMA 3. ADM and SDMs 4 District Police Chief, Thiruvananthapuram (City, Rural) 5. District Medical Officer (Health), Thiruvananthapuram 6. All Tahsildars and Incident Commanders 7. Secretary, Thiruvananthapuram District Panchayath Secretary, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation 9. Deputy Director of Panchayath, Thiruvananthapuram 10. District Information Officer (For publicity) 11. District Informatics Officer (For website publication) 12. Secretary, Concerned Municipalities/Grama panchayaths 13. Medical Officer/Superintendent CHC Chettivilakam 14. Taluk in Charge Medical Officer, Thiruvananthapuram 4 .