Chennai: Around 1.20 lakh houses in the city limits have been isolated, Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner G Prakash said today.
Speaking to the media, he said that the civic body is taking all necessary steps to control the spread of Covid-19. “Around four thousand volunteers have been roped in to help the residents of isolated houses,” he added.
He added that two medical camps per ward are going on in all 200 wards of the Corporation.
It may be noted that the Greater Chennai Corporation has commenced works to convert Anna University hostel rooms into Covid 19 care centre with atleast 2,000 beds.
Following the issuance of notice by the Corporation under the Disaster Management Act to hand over hostels for development of care centres, Anna University refused to hand them over hostel rooms of students and research scholars as they had left behind research papers and materials, apart from their valuables in hostel rooms.
However, Commissioner Prakash said the District Disaster Management Authority has the powers under the Act to take over any building for disaster response.
The Corporation would pack the valuables, videograph them and hand over the materials to the university. But the research scholars and students opposed the move to vacate the rooms in their absence as the risk of damage to valuable materials was high.