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What to do if you feel you have any of the Covid symptoms and want to get tested in Chennai ?
A) Please have a word with the Fever Survey Staff who are visiting your home for symptom surveillance. They will guide you to the nearest testing centre.
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B) Please attend the @chennaicorp Fever camp. Doctors will have a preliminary check up and all fever camps have facilities for collection of samples.
C) Please walk in to a Chennai Corporation static swab collection centre. No prescription is needed for the test and we are actively encouraging private medical practitioners to send all ILI symptomatic people to our labs.
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You can also test yourself at a private lab also. Most private labs in Chennai offer Covid test.
Early identification is crucial to minimise adverse outcomes.
Please get yourself tested, if you feel symptomatic.
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All houses in Chennai are surveiled on a 'DAILY' basis for ILI ( Influenza like Ilness) Symptoms.
Gate meeting for the Survey Staff at 7.30 am & previous day's work is audited to see any ILI's were missed.
Also given fresh instructions for the day.
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Each survey worker covers 100 to 150 houses daily.
Infra Red Thermometers are used universally by all survey staff & helps in picking up mild fevers.
Now Pulse Oxymeters are also given to most staff to help in early identification of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness.
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"Early Identification helps in better clinical outcome and also prevents further spread." - This is reiterated every day during the gate meeting and senior officials are deputed to each ward to motivate the staff and to improve the fever survey.
This video is from Zone 14.
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We are barricading a few streets close to the case positive houses. The entry and exit from the barricaded area is regulated to prevent the possible transmission of #COVID2019 .
Strict perimeter control to ensure that the entry and exit is monitored.
Also temporary medical camps on a daily basis to ensure that each and every person with flu symptoms is picked up immediately
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Ensuring that groceries, vegetables and drinking water is in adequate supply.
A local sponsor has also been identified by the police and zonal corporation team and milk and bread packets delivered on a daily basis to all the 60 plus families in the barricaded zone.
1) Mass Active Surveillance- Around 2500 houses around 'case positive houses' are already being surveilled on a daily basis for #Covid19 related symptoms .
Done by Corp DBC workers, UHN's, Anganwadi workers etc.
Now GCC has announced that it will proactively survey all the households in city for Covid symptoms or other ARI symptoms. It will be done on a daily basis in most places . Around 10 k Self Help Group workers are recruited and work has started in most places in the city.
When such symptoms are reported by the health staff , a medical team is rushed to the spot to verify them.
Based on clinical history the patients are treated and followed up. Based on type of symptoms they may be asked to be in home isolation or shifted to hospital isolation.
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Thanks for staying indoors. To help you continue the same we are releasing a list of shops/ supermarkets in South Chennai which does home delivery. This list is not exhaustive & we will keep updating. Also feel free to add if shops are missed out on the comment section
Let's take some time to salute the Sanitary workers & the public health staff , the #RealHeroes who were working on this day also to ensure that the city remains safe.
This team is working on disinfecting bus stops at LB road, Adayar in our effort to #StopCoronaTN using a Corpn owned Jet Rodding Machine.
And this team is working on disinfecting various points on the OMR using Jet Rodding machines deputed from @CHN_Metro_Water.
Metro Water has deputed around 70 vehicles to GCC for the disinfection purposes. @prabhusean7@srkias2012
Handwashing facilities in public places has been started in various places across Chennai and it's happy to see that people are using them.
These images are from Besant Nagar and Sholinganallur.
Major public gathering places are being disinfected through tractor mounted cleaning machines and jet rodding machines.
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