Bengaluru: The B.S.Yediyurappa-led state government is attempting to operationalise around 8,000 polling booths in Bengaluru as part of its hyperlocal strategy to get a grip on the rapidly spiralling Covid-19 crisis in India’s technology capital.The attempt is to carry out door-to-door surveys, identifying and isolating the vulnerable, like people with ILI, SARI, and fast-tracking contact tracing, which the administration hopes will give it some control over the situation.“This will enable to protect the most vulnerable from the infection and will also help to trace the contact.
Booth level task force committees will be utilised to coordinate ferrying symptomatic patients to Covid Care Centres," medical education minister Sudhakar said in a.