Ranchi: The Jharkhand government has directed the six-district authorities to improve sample collection, Covid-19 testing and contacts contacts of train passengers entering Maharashtra and Kerala.
It also ordered a compulsory institutional quarantine for all paramilitary personnel and police who returned from other states to prevent another surge in viral disease considering the spread of Delta-Plus variants in other countries.
On August 5, the Ministry of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Directed Deputy Commissioner Ranchi, Bokaro, Ramgarh, Singhbhum Timur, West Singhbhum Regency and Deoghar to record passengers arriving from Maharashtra and Kerala and started Covid.
19 Testing and Contact Search Training.
The order issued by Arun Health Secretary Kumar Singh said the precautionary measures were needed to prevent a surge in other Covid-19 infections in Jharkhand due to the pressure of the Delta-Plus Mutan variant of the virus.
“Covid-19 testing and contact contacts from all passengers who come with trains from these countries must be ascertained.
Apart from that, the district must notify the state supervision of the timing and the train movements regularly,” Singh wrote.
Said that the level of prospective in Kerala and Maharashtra has increased to more than 12%, the department said that it was very important to filter out passengers who came from these countries.
In August the first week, the level of Jharkhand’s hover is slightly above 2%.
Although the District Administration has mobilized a team of health workers at all busy train stations from Jharkhand such as Ranchi, Hatiia, Bokaro Steel City, Tatanagar (Jamshedpur), Barkakakana (Ramgarh), Deoghar, only a small portion of thousands of passengers arriving at stations It is placed through an antigen test and fast RT-PCR.
“In most cases, it is impossible to filter 1,200 strange passengers who arrive on the express train.
We can only filter a handful.
There are shortcomings of health and because of the waiting time, many passengers become tense and break through the baric of the RPF personnel on the platform,” one Health workers at Ranchi Station said asking for anonymity.
About 800 passengers are being tested at the trained train station every day.
In other letters for Jharkhand DGP Neeraj Sinha, The Health Secretary directed him to ensure that all police, paramilitary personnel and homemaker houses, who arrived from other countries of the leaves and tasks, had to undergo the institutional quarantine of seven days mandatory at the arrival of the district district which is the place of each post.
“All of these personnel must be quarantined for a week at their respective police lines.
Those from the district with a high level of pioneer must be included through RT-PCR tests.
If they are tested positively, they will be treated at the Covid Health Center and the search for their contacts must be done , “Singh wrote.
The Health Department official said placing police personnel who were included in the institutional quarantine aimed at eliminating the possibility of mass infections in the state police and paramilitary personnel.