Jagtial: Persistent efforts by villagers, local communities and the village panchayat to avoid the entry of Coronavirus to the location in the past year-and-a-half had actually proven to be successful until now, however it emerged on Monday that the infection tore into their will and hit 3 members of the village.The Ragojipet town in Medipally mandal of Jagtial district had actually ably stuck out and won appreciation by not having even a single Covid-positive case there up until now.
The small town with a population of 1,150 is divided into 350 families.
Villagers led by the sarpanch Balasani Laharika took all preventive actions from the beginning after the pandemic raised its deadly head across the world given that the start of last year.Right from the start, the town panchayat passed resolutions and imposed self-lockdown and controlled the infection' entry at its limit by tying ropes throughout at entry points on all the four sides.
The panchayat likewise deployed one villager at a time at each entry point as a guard to keep people from other areas away.
Mike-set announcements were made every early morning, recommending people about the actions to be required to safeguard themselves from being infected.Village sarpanch Balasani Laharika and other functionaries of the town panchayat, the community staff and the district administration routinely monitored the sanitation and drainage works and used up scattering of chloride solution in the entire village.By seeing these steps in Ragojipet, the surrounding towns too took inspiration and followed suit.Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, town sarpanch B Laharika said they took precautionary steps and have imposed a self-lockdown in the village.
A penalty of Rs1,000 was imposed on those who violated the Covid19 guidelines.
Supermarket were allowed to open only for two hours in the early morning and 2 hours in the evening.
Villagers remained at their houses from 8am to 6pm and this was followed by night curfew from 8pm.
With the assistance of municipal personnel, the entire village was sterilized and sanitizer bottles were connected to each electrical energy pole in the town.
Outsiders were not enabled to enter the village other than in an emergency.
They needed to enter their information in a register.In the previous couple of days, a fever survey was carried out in the village and 13 inhabitants were discovered experiencing moderate fever.
We immediately moved them to a health center for a check-up.
It was then discovered that three members who went to the neighbouring town to take in toddy (Kallu) got infected by the infection.
As soon as the test reports were gotten, they were asked to stay in house seclusion, she said, revealing her and the villagers' deep dissatisfaction.