Even as the highest number of Covid-19 cases has been reported in Ganjam district, a total 236 returnee migrants completed 21-day stay at the institutional quarantine centres in the district on Wednesday in the first phase and returned home.
As per reports, 118 returnees completed the quarantine at the Sheragada Adarsh Vidyalaya while 112 inmates at a centre at the Dharakote Adarsh Vidyalaya and six kept at the Rangeilunda School completed the quarantine period.
Official sources said the returnees had come to the district during the lockdown and were in the quarantine as per the State Government’s guidelines on Covid-19.
District Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange talked to the migrants at the quarantine centres and assured them help to get employment in the district.
So far, a total of 313 persons tested positive for Covid-19 in the district. Out of them, 132 have been cured. While the number of active cases in the district is 179 till yet, two have died of the disease.