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Noida: A day after TOI reported about villagers claiming that over the past 10 days there have been several deaths of people who had Covid-like symptoms, the nodal officer for Covid response in Gautam Budh Nagar, Narendra Bhooshan, visited some of the rural areas.
During the visit to Ghodi Bachera, Tilpata, Saini and Khairpur Gurjar on Thursday, he found that there were no emergency contacts of local nigrani samitis available with the residents and medical kits were not provided to Asha workers. He has directed officials to give 5-10 kits to all Asha workers in the area for emergency use. On Thursday, the district administration announced that it will now conduct extensive testing drives in all villages across Noida, Greater Noida and Jewar and all symptomatic people in these areas would be tested in the next 48 hours. “I visited five households where at least one person had passed away in the last few days. Many of them had comorbidities. They were getting treated for various ailments but even then, the role of Asha workers and the nigrani samitis could not be overemphasised. We have directed that these samitis be activated immediately and the call centre number be made public so that everyone knows who to contact in case of an emergency,” said Bhooshan.