Assam
already has a strict policy, which requires all returnees to spend a total of
14 days in quarantine, with the first few days in an institution until the
test results are available and the rest in isolation at home.
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Agencies
Guwahati: Medics collect swab
samples of migrant workers for the COVID-19 test after a worker working in a
potato godown at the fancy bazaar tested positive for coronavirus during the
ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Guwahati on May 16.
Assam cabinet on Tuesday decided that all those stranded
people, who are returning to the state following the easing of lockdown
restrictions from May 4, will have to undergo institutional quarantine for the
first few days because of a spike in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) positive
cases in the past few days.
The state has reported 598 Covid-19 positive cases till
Tuesday afternoon.
Assam already has a strict policy, which requires all
returnees to spend a total of 14 days in quarantine, with the first few days in
an institution until the test results are available and the rest in isolation
at home.
“On Tuesday, the
cabinet approved the enforcement of strict quarantine for all returnees for 14
days, as we don’t want community spread of the viral outbreak,” parliamentary
affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told media persons after the meeting.
In a bid to help folk artistes, who are facing economic
hardships because of the ongoing lockdown restrictions, which have been imposed
since end-March to contain the spread of the pandemic, the cabinet also decided
to provide Rs2,000 to each of them for three months, beginning April.
“The cabinet directed
all the deputy commissioners to stock adequate relief materials and repair
embankments, as the onset of floods is likely from July,” Patowary said.
Ministers, who are in charge of Covid-19 management in the
state’s 33 districts, have been entrusted with the additional responsibility of
overseeing flood relief work in those districts, Patowary added.
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