50 samples to be collected everyday by sanitary inspectors from each of 200 zones in Chennai
Posted on: 19/Nov/2020 9:56:10 AM
The number of samples tested in Chennai has now come down below 8000 per day. This has led to GCC instructing all the sanitary inspectors to collect 50 samples everyday from each of the 200 zones.
Mr. Harmender Singh, secretary of municipal administration and water supply department had given clear instructions to the GCC to increase the sample collection and impose fines for non-adherence to social distancing and facemask compliance. This was according to an official belonging to GCC.
He then spoke about how the secretary in his message has mentioned about the fine collection that has come down now to Rs 50,000 form the Rs 4lakhs per day.
Point is that the sanitary inspectors have been asked to collect not less than 50 samples every day to reach the overall testing figure of 10,000 samples per day. On Monday and on Tuesday, GCC had tested just 7545 samples and 7794 samples respectively. This was as per the data released by GCC.
It must be recalled that a few weeks back, the civic body was testing 13,000 to 14,000 samples per day and more than 10,000 samples were tested every day until a few days back.
It was later pointed out by a sanitary inspector that by collecting 50 samples from each of 200 division samples collected in private and government labs would add up. By this, it would be possible for GCC to test atleast 12,000 samples every day. On Monday and on Tuesday, the test positivity rate in Chennai was 6.58perxcent and 6.31 percent on Monday and Tuesday. Chennai had 497 and 492 fresh Covid-19 cases on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
On the morning of Wednesday, GCC had as many as 4822 active Covid-19 cases and that was just 2percent of the total cases reported. This was according to the data from GCC.
