Fighting Corona: Health team takes swab samples of 26 persons
Jamshedpur, May 13: The district administration has formed a 20-member team to carry survey at Chakulia under East Singhbhum district after two persons tested positive of coronavirus.
A chartered accountant student, aged 24 and a female employee of a MNC, aged 28 both from Kolkata who had returned home on May 8 evening on a private cab at Chakulia, around 80 km from of Jamshedpur have become the first novel coronavirus positive cases to have surfaced from East Singhbhum district.The district health team took swab samples of 26 persons.
With two positive cases reported from East Singhbhum, the administration has pressed panic button. The division that comprises East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seriakela Kharsawan districts was free from the deadly virus so far. However, with tests reported positive from Chakulia, the administration sealed the area and started sanitising.
� We are keeping an eye on those quarantine and also sending teams for identifying fresh suspected cases. There are several persons who have returned from abroad and have been quarantined. We want them to follow guidelines,� said an official.
The medical team is also distributing pamphlets on the measures to be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19. They are being informed about quarantine measures for those showing symptoms such as cold, cough and fever.
Meanwhile, Tatanagar railway station witnessed passengers after nearly two months as 61 passengers boarded the special train resumed by Indian Railways.
The train which started from Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) on Wednesday morning will be reaching Delhi on Thursday morning and made halt at Balasore (Odisha) followed by Tatanagar.
�The passengers were very excited. The train scheduled for arrival at 4.15 pm arrived twenty minutes behind schedule. In all 61 passengers boarded the train from Tatanagar while two passengers from Bhubaneswar alighted at Tatanagar. We followed all the standard operating protocols in coordination with the district administration like keeping social distance, checking of e-tickets, sanitization and thermal screening of all passengers,� said Tatanagar Station director, Pradeep Balmuchu.
Meanwhile, the district administration took the two passengers who alighted from the train from Bhubaneshwar to the quarantine center in Telco. �We have kept them in institutional quarantine and took their swab samples for confirmatory tests. If the samples report is negative they will be allowed to go home,� said Jamshedpur circle officer, Anurag
The migrant labourers who are returning back to their hometowns are being kept under strict vigil as administration has advised several of them to be home quarantined. Even after proper screening at Tatanagar railway station and bus stops, the administration is keeping a close watch at quarantine centres.
