Prasagraj: As many as seven police about the task of Magh Mela have been tested positively Covid-19 infection between January 1 and 10.
They have arrived at the Mela campus of various parts of the country to carry out the task.
Furthermore, testing of employees, officials of various departments and members of different organizations that have arrived for the task of Mela Magh or establishing camps on the Mela campus have been intensified.
Mela police tested around 2,000 police starting January 1 and seven of them out positive.
They have been stored in insulation camps until recovery.
Police Supervisors (Magh Mela) Dr.
Rajiv Narayan Mishra told toi, “as many as seven police have been tested positive for Covid-19 infection in the last 10 days.
They have been stored in isolation so that the police and other visitors are not infected.” He said that all seven police officers were complain about mild symptoms.
“About 5,000 police, starting from the up to additional SP constitutions, which have been assigned tasks on the Mela campus will be tested.” He, however, claimed that all precautions had begun and wore masks made mandatory for all police at the campus of the reserve police line, office, Mela police station and police post.
Mela police also focused sanitation on campus.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health officials have begun to test employees, officials of various government departments and different organizational members who have arrived for Magh Mela’s duties or establishing camps on the Mela campus since 1.
“The Ministry of Health team is testing people through the method Antigen and RT-PCR on Mela campus.
About 300 to 400 samples are collected every day, “they said.
With lakh worshipers, pilgrims, fortune tellers and saints who arrived to Mela starting January 14 on the occasion of Sankranti Makar, Mela police insisted on the Covid-19 protocol, including wearing a mask, social blasphemy and the use of cleaners.
The number of visitors tends to climb multiple doubles on six days Sangan Utama – Makar Sankranti, Paush Purnima, Mauni Amasascaya, Basant Panchmi, Maghi Purnima and Maha Shivratri.
“With January 14, the intensity of testing and sample collection will increase multiply in the coming days and more health teams will be deployed on the Mela campus for samples,” said a health official, added that all five sectors in Mela Magh would It has a separate static Covid-19 test center / primary care center and other than antigen testing facilities.