New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday (April 17) declared that every one devotees returning to the state from Haridwar Kumbh Mela must bear a mandatory RT-PCR check earlier than they’re allowed to enter their respective cities and villages.
In order to curb the unfold of COVID-19 within the already severely affected state, the Gujarat CM mentioned that no Kumbh returnee might be allowed to enter their respective locations with out taking an RT-PCR check.
“Collectors of all districts in Gujarat have been directed to keep a watch on the Kumbh Mela returnees and enforce a nakabandi’ (security checking) to prevent their entry in their hometowns without undergoing an RT-PCR test,” Rupani instructed experiences in Jamnagar.
Those discovered contaminated might be remoted for 14 days, Rupani added. “Collectors of all of the districts have been directed to establish the Kumbh returnees,” the BJP chief knowledgeable.
Earlier, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a Cabinet assembly mentioned that pilgrims getting back from the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand must be monitored and subjected to COVID-19 testing.
At the Kumbh Mela, complete of 1,701 folks have examined constructive for COVID-19 within the Haridwar Kumbh Mela from April 10 to 14. Many seers have examined constructive for COVID-19 the medical workplace at Haridwar mentioned.
As many as 68 seers have examined constructive for COVID-19 between April 5 to 14, together with Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad president Mahant Narendra Giri, who’s admitted on the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh.
Meanwhile, addressing the scarcity of hospital beds in cities and the difficulties confronted by folks, Rupani mentioned 10,000 extra beds might be added within the subsequent 15 days.
Gujarat on Friday added the most important single-day rise with 8,920 new coronavirus constructive, taking the tally to three,84,688. 94 sufferers succumbed to the an infection which raised the dying toll to five,170, as per the state well being division.
(With inputs from companies)
