Berhampur: With the influx of a large number of youth working outside Odisha in cities like Mumbai, Surat and Ahmadabad into their hometown in Ganjam district, the district administration is taking no chances and initiating various measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The administration has initiated the process to isolate and keep in isolation more than 2000 passengers who arrived from Mumbai, Surat, Ahmedabad and other places to Berhampur on Monday. District officials have been asked to keep track of each of the passengers and register their names. A team of 40 persons are engaged in the process. While the doctors ensured screening with thermal sensing device at the railway station, no one with symptoms of Coronavirus has been found.
In another Important development, the State Surveillance Unit has informed the district health authorities that 99 people have returned from China and other countries affected by the pandemic to Ganjam district. All of them are being tracked and monitored.
However, the district administration has directed everyone to remain in isolation and has made full-proof arrangements to monitor them with village level teams.
But the truth is that more people than that number have returned home. Teams are collecting information in the blocks that how many people have returned from overseas. When they submit the report, it would be clear what the number really is, said Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange.
Speaking exclusively to thenewsriom.co.in, Vijay Amruta Kulange said, meetings at village level, GP level, block level and District level are taking place every day. Topics like, social distance, quarantine status, symptoms status, essential good hygiene etc are being discussed among the public to create awareness.
Meanwhile, Kulange has appealed all the foreign returnees to call the toll free number 104 and register themselves and provide information. He also directed the Tehsil staff, NAC, Health Department, and ASHA Workers to cooperate in this. The Anganwadi workers have been directed to constantly track all returnees to their vicinity. In case their health deteriorates they would be shifted to the hospitals. All the truck drivers and passengers returning from other States would be screened. Besides, a 10-day awareness campaign would be carried out.