LSGIs told to revive ward panels: CM

Tough action against those violating quarantine

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has directed local self-governments to revive the ward-level committees that had played a key role in COVID containment during the first wave and work with renewed vigil and vigour, so that the current pace of transmission can be brought down in two weeks. The ward-level committees, which had efficiently taken care of contact tracing, quarantining, and other containment activities during the first wave, had fallen back to abysmal levels in recent times, he said. If these committees took over contact tracing and monitoring of those families on home quarantine, disease transmission could be checked and the State could go back to normality faster, Mr. Vijayan said.