Kohima District Task Force on COVID-19 meeting with the representatives of ward and colony at DPDB Conference Hall, Kohima on August 4. (DIPR Photo)
Kohima, August 5 (MExN): Kohima District Task Force (DTF) on COVID-19 held a meeting with the representatives of ward and colony under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner & Chairman DTF Kohima, Gregory Thejawelie, NCS at DPDB Conference Hall, Kohima on August 4.
A DIPR report stated that Kohima DC Gregory informed the gathering that the meeting was convened to call for concerted efforts from all corners of the district towards the successful implementation of the Micro-Isolation Zone (MIZ), notified by the State Government. He said the concept of MIZ has been conceived with the aim to cause minimal disruption to normal life and economic activities by isolating a defined small geographical area which might be a small as a building from the rest.
As in Containment Zones, restriction of movement, social distancing, enhanced active surveillance, testing all suspected cases, isolation of cases and intensive IEC on COVID-19 appropriate behaviours and other preventive and safety public health measures will be put in place. DC said that depending on the number of COVID-19 cases and number of houses with COVID-19 cases, a cluster of houses or a locality-colony/block/khel/ward/village will be declared as MIZ.
In this connection, the DC called for collective efforts from all the wards and colonies to join hands and assist the DTF in identifying the household and provide required information to implement the exercise effectively so as to break the chain of transmission.
CMO Kohima, Dr Vezokholu Theyo spoke on the testing strategy and emphasized on the importance of testing and vaccination in the present scenario of the pandemic.
