Thermal scanner must at ATMs in Dharwad

TNN | Updated: Apr 13, 2020, 12:27 IST

DHARWAD: Deputy commissioner Deepa Cholan on Sunday directed banks in the district to compulsorily install thermal scanners at the entrance of their ATMs. An expert should be deployed at ATMs to screen customers and record their medical history. The register containing these details should be submitted to the health department on a daily basis, she said.
Deepa also directed medical shops to maintain records of people purchasing paracetamol-based drugs. Pharmacists have to record the name, mobile number and address of those making over-the-counter purchase of such drugs. The details should be submitted every day to the drug controller’s office.
Selling paracetamol-based drug without recording the identity of the person amounts to violation of Karnataka Epidemic Disease, Covid-19 Regulations 2020 and stern legal action will be initiated against such pharmacists, she warned. The DC said that measures to screen people and contain Covid-19 have been beefed up and banks have to cooperate with the government in this regard.