Center identified four cities, Bengaluru, Chennai, Indore and Jaipur as role model

NEW DELHI: While whole country is struggling to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre has identified four cities-Bengaluru, Chennai, Indore and Jaipur as ‘role models’ for other cities in country to handle the coronavirus positive cases.

Recently, the Central government has organised meetings with various municipal bodies to share their experiences on two aspects of managing the COVID19: effective practises to keep mortality rate low and how to handle very high number of positive cases.

The two southern Indian cities of Bengaluru and Chennai were identified as example of large cities that are able to keep a control of mortality rate. Meanwhile, Indore and Jaipur were identified as role models due to their innovative ways of tackling high number of COVID, 19 cases.

While the national average of mortality rate is 3 per cent, Bengaluru and Chennai were able to keep it at 1 per cent. Indore and Jaipur has adapted to an aggressive strategy of conducting house to house survey and contact tracing to control the number of cases down. To control the cases, Indore has formed special teams for patrol in city by lanes, Jaipur has limited the number of vendors selling groceries or vegetables in different localities.

A senior official said that the Bengaluru and Chennai has led by example in treating the patients of coronavirus by optimizing the use of ventilators and patient triage or assigning the degree of urgency in cases while handling a large number of patients.