Covid command & control centre opens at MC office
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Covid command & control centre opens at MC office
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The Covid command and control centre was inaugurated by Mayor Raj Bala Malik at the Municipal Corporation (MC) office in Sector 17 today.“The project will help the city in studying and preparing in case of larger Covid-19 outbreak. Accordingly, the UT Administration can plan resources ahead of the crisis,” the Mayor said.KK Yadav, Commissioner, MC, said, “The command centre will monitor quarantined people and positive cases through their movement using Geo fencing services. It will also monitor sanitation services of the city, including sabzi mandi, Sector 26, using cameras installed at the periphery, compliance with Covid guidelines and workers using wrist-watch watches.”“An analytics and GIS platform has been installed to analyse data coming from all relevant stakeholders, including health and municipal services, police and daily essentials providers. This will help in efficient planning of resources to be deployed in the field,” he added.“Besides, other SCADA services like water, street lights and legacy waste bio-mining will also be monitored at the centre,” he said. — TNS
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The Tribune
Date
2020-04-26
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Chandigarh