The Ranchi District Administration has pasted posters outside at least 400 houses of people on self-quarantine across the State capital and its suburbs – an initiative aimed at cautioning trespassers and visitors beforehand that the residents of the house might be carriers of Novel Coronavirus, officials said on Monday.
While the Government has enforced a lockdown across the State in the wake of COVID-19 on Sunday, the District Administration’s decision of pasting posters was implemented in the urban areas of Ranchi on Monday.
The initiative of the administration assumes significance as several thousand people have returned to Ranchi from States where cases of Coronavirus have been reported.‘Home under quarantine. Keep milk bag/ courier/ food packet/newspaper outside. Do not go inside at any cost,” said one of the posters pasted on the main gate of a house at Harmu Housing Colony in Ranchi. Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Rai Mahimapat Ray said that objective behind pasting posters was not to scare people, but to prevent the spread of the virus in the city.
“If any person is found entering the houses where people are in self-quarantine, the person will also be examined and quarantined,” said Rai, adding that if a person spots such movement in houses that have warning posters
on their entry gates, then he or she should inform the district administration about it. “You can dial 181 or 104 and inform us. We have screened around 4000 people by now,” he said. He also urged the people of the State to be cautious and pay special attention to their hygiene.While the number of people infected by Coronavirus in India crossed the figure of 400 by Monday, Jharkhand is among the few states that have not yet reported any positive case of the lethal virus.
COVID-19 – a mysterious virus that has killed more than 15,000 people and affected 3.5 lakh across the globe – has, however, swung the health machinery here in action. Several trains and buses have been cancelled, and the Government has directed all people travelling to Jharkhand from affected States to stay in self-quarantine for at least 14 days.