Officials told to screen, quarantine migrants
Govt in touch with 58,000 gram pradhans, ward councillors
LUCKNOW: The state government on Sunday directed the district magistrates and chief medical officers (CMO) of all 75 districts to screen and quarantine all the migrants who reached their villages from Delhi, other states and foreign countries, for 14 days.
Addressing a joint press conference, additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi and principal secretary, health Amit Mohan Prasad said chief minister Yogi Adityanath had directed the district magistrates and CMOs of all the districts to screen and quarantine the migrants. The state government had also contacted the 58,000 gram pradhans and ward councillors across the state to assist the district administration in screening and quarantine of the migrants. Those asymptomatic would be admitted to hospitals and other migrants would be home quarantined, he said.
Awasthi said there was no community spread of Sars-Cov-2 in UP yet. The number of positive cases in the state was 68 till Sunday evening. All the patients had travel history or the people who came in contact with the travellers were infected. In NOIDA around 20 workers in a factory were found positive as some people in the factory had travelled to United Kingdom, he said.
Principal secretary, health, Amit Mohan Prasad said none of the positive patients admitted to the hospital was on ventilator. The condition of all the 54 was stable. Fourteen patients had recovered and discharged from the hospital. To strengthen the facilities in the hospitals, the state government had decided to purchase 200 said.
Prasad said the state government had decided to establish corona hospitals in all the 75 districts. The community health centres would be converted into dedicated Sars-Cov-2 hospitals. The specialized hospitals would be established on the premises of the SGPGI Lucknow, KGMU Lucknow, BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur and Government Medical College, Meerut. ventilators, he