My family, my responsibility drive will make Maha fit: CM

The Maharashtra governments myfamily, my responsibility anti-COVID-19 drive will create ahealth map for the state and make its people fit, ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday.

He was speaking at a review meeting held on theoutbreak situation in Konkan and Pune regions, with officialsfrom there taking part through video-conferencing.

The campaign aims to survey and screen households inthe state to detect COVID-19 patients as well as those withother ailments.

Volunteers were compiling data of those who had beendetected with the infection, those who had recovered and theirpost-coronavirus situation, Thackeray said.

“In Konkan, 10.63 lakh families have been surveyed. InPune, they have surveyed 182 villages and 13 municipalcouncils,” the CM said.

He said the campaign was being extended in Pune toinclude factories, housing societies and civic wards.

He said easing of lockdown restrictions, also calledunlock and begin again by authorities, increased thethreat of the virus spreading and asked people to ensure theywear masks and maintain social distancing norms.

“Now we see two kinds of people. One who hastremendous fear for the coronavirus and the other who is verycareless about the outbreak. The threat of spread of the virusis more from asymptomatic patients,” Thackeray claimed.

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