Amid detection of triple mutant variant of Covid-19 in West Bengal, the Odisha police have intensified checking at border check-posts in Mayurbhanj and Baleswar districts.
Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) Abhay on Sunday visited Baleswar and reviewed the enforcement of Covid prevention measures like implementation of night curfew, weekend shutdown, functioning of border check-posts and preparedness to ramp up police assistance to tackle the pandemic.
The permanent border check-posts at Laxmannath and Udaypur-Talasari in Baleswar district and at Hatibari and Chaksuliapada in Mayurbhanj are active round the clock on the West Bengal border. Further, 22 temporary check-posts have been set up in Baleswar and 32 in Mayurbhanj to seal the borders, police sources said.A total of seven OSAP platoons in Baleswar district and four in Mayurbhanj have been deployed to intensify Covid measures’ enforcement. The Odisha government has declared a 14-day mandatory quarantine for those returning from West Bengal. Anyone coming to Odisha from West Bengal by personal or hired vehicles or entering in any other mode shall undergo mandatory institutional or paid quarantine for 14 days in cluster TMCs to be managed by BDOs/EOs of urban areas.
However, if anyone coming from the neighbouring State produces the certificate mentioning the concerned person’s successful vaccination (two doses) or RT-PCR negative test report within 48 hours of entering Odisha shall be allowed for a 14-day home quarantine.
All passengers coming from West Bengal and alighting at the airports at Bhubaneswar or Jharsuguda shall be mandatorily subjected to institutional quarantine or paid quarantine for 14 days at the facilities identified/ordered by District Magistrate/Municipal Commissioner.