By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: With Outside returnees started hitting their homeland and State Government gearing up to face the post lockdown situation, the alarming increase in positive cases have put the Naveen Patnaik Government in hurry again.
Number of COVID-19 cases in Odisha mounted to 128 as three persons of Jajpur district tested positive for the virus yesterday, Health and Family Welfare Department sources said today.
The three have been identified as a 18-year-old girl and a 56-year-old man of Katikata containment area in the district (both are West Bengal returnee and came in contact with earlier positive case in the district) and a 65-year-old man (asymptomatic) who is Kolkata returnee and was under quarantine, Information & Public Relations Department said.
Total of 2588 samples were tested in the state yesterday while nine of those tested positive for COVID-19. With this, the number of active cases in the state rose to 88 while 39 patients have recovered so far, sources said.
Meanwhile, more than 200 migrants reached Odisha’s Ganjam district from Surat late last night, local administration sources said.
As many as four buses carrying a total of 217 migrant workers reached Seragarh and Dharakote in the district around midnight, reports said. They were stranded in Surat due to nationwide lockdown for coronavirus outbreak.Ganjam Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange appealed the people of the district not to roam near temporary medical camps (quarantine centres) where returnees from other states are being quarantined.
The official further said that stringent action will be taken against those violating the rule.Temporary medical camps have been set up at gram panchayats and NACs across the district, where migrants returning from other states will have to undergo a mandatory quarantine for 14 days, he said.
