Coimbatore Corporation taking all steps to contain COVID-19 spread: Sakkarapani
The Hindu
Plans to increase the surveyors from around 2,400 to around 5,000
Coimbatore Corporation, which is in the process of increasing the number of people engaged in door-to-door survey to identify persons with fever symptoms, aims at having a surveyor for every 100 houses in the city, Minister for Food R. Sakkarapani said here on Saturday. Addressing reporters after reviewing the steps the Corporation had taken to combat COVID-19 spread, he said the civic body had planned to increase the surveyors from around 2,400 for 100 wards to around 5,000. This would take the number of surveyors to 50 for each of the wards. The 2,400 surveyors on rolls at present had covered 1,240 of the 7,500 streets in the city. And, on the 1,240 streets, they had reached 1.21 lakh of the five lakh houses in the city.
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