Bihar keeps an eye on migrants returning home
The spike in the number of cases in the country has prompted the Bihar government to initiate preventive measures to deal with the threat emerging due to the Coronavirus outbreak in the state.
After one death and three positive cases, the state administration has asked its officials to increase the screening for the Coronavirus in the state.
To deal with rising Coronavirus threat, isolation wards and test centres have been set up at all medical college and hospitals across the state including Patna Medical College and Hospital, Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, Indira Gandhi Institute and Medical Sciences and All India Institute Medical Sciences Patna.
As per the state health department’s reports so far 185 samples have been examined out of which three cases were found positive.
To prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus, intense screening of passengers is being done at Patna and Gaya airports.
According to officials here, the state government has also made special arrangements to keep passengers coming from abroad in quarantine.
“Officials have been asked to track all contacts of cases who have been found positive,” said Sanjay Kumar, principal health secretary.
Besides, migrants from other states are also being screened at various railway stations of the state.
As per an assessment, around 537 passengers who
Doctors and medical staff will be given an amount equivalent to their one month of basic pay as an encouragement for their services to people during the Coronavirus outbreak.
— NITISH KUMAR
Chief Minister
arrived from other states have been kept under observation after being screened at railway stations.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday also announced a relief package for doctors and medical staff as encouragement for their services to people.
In a statement, he said that “doctors and medical staff will be given an amount equivalent to their one month of basic pay as an encouragement for their services to people during the Coronavirus outbreak”.
He also said, “Ration cardholders will get a month of ration free while pensioners will be provided three months pension in advance”.
On Sunday Bihar government had imposed a complete lockdown in the state after one person with a travel history to Qatar died at AIIMS, Patna.
Earlier the state government had cancelled all major events and had also shut down all educational intuitions, parks, and zoo and cinema halls.
Also, Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, on Monday offered his 1, Polo road official bungalow to the government for turning it into a makeshift quarantine camp or a testing centre for Covid-19.