East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla along with other senior administrative officials on Friday inspected the Professional Flats in Kadma which would be converted into a quarantine centre for Covid-19 suspected cases.
“We are looking for more such centres so that so that we are prepared to meet any such challenge. The situation is under control right now but we are taking every step to ensure safety. So far we have nearly 2000 bed quarantine facilities in different blocks of the district. Still we want to keep such flats of Tata Steel in our hands for quarantine facilities in case of emergencies. We saw the arrangements at the flats today,” said East Singhbhum additional district magistrate (law and order), N. K Lal.
Meanwhile, all the inter-state and inter-district checkpoints in 12 locations of the district have been sealed by the district administration.
Jamshedpur city SP Subhash Chandra Jatt said that several police stations have already started doing it.
“ We want people to stay inside. We need to follow lockdown guidelines. We have started using public addresses to warn of lockdown violators and also request people to observe Shab-e-Barat in minority dominated area of Azadnagar in Mango yesterday and also today. The local thanas have been asked to proactively use the public address system during patrolling to impress upon the need for staying in houses during lockdown period,” said Jatt.
“ We are taking every possible step to combat challenges posed by coronavirus. We have asked the district officers to come up with quarantine centres across the district so that patients can be kept isolated,” said Ravi Shankar Shukla, deputy commissioner. He went on to inform that the BDOs will make arrangements. Isolation centres have come up in several places in the city but the idea is to ensure such places in rural areas too.
He also informed that several people who returned from abroad have been home quarantine and no positive case has been reported in the city so far.
“We do not have community spread now, and when it happens, it will be a huge challenge. People should avoid moving for two weeks, and this is important to prevent community transmission. We are ready to manage any situation. We have isolation wards in medical college hospitals and quarantine facilities,” he said.