Seven truck drivers isolated for 14 days in Coonoor hospital

TNN | May 4, 2020, 04:17 IST

Udhagamandalam: Seven truck drivers from the district, who had returned from Chennai after unloading vegetables at Koyambedu wholesale market, were isolated at the Coonoor Government Lawley Hospital on Sunday for fourteen days.
“Normally, all the truck drivers and people entering the district with e-pass are made to undergo thermal screening at the check posts on the district border,” deputy director, public health, Dr P Balusamy said.
He said people entering the district with e-pass are home quarantined and monitored regularly.
“From today, we have started isolating truck drivers returning from Koyambedu market, a new Covid-19 cluster in Chennai, at hospitals as a precautionary measure,” Dr Balusamy said.
“We are tracing around 40 truck drivers who have returned from Koyambedu in the past two-three days,” he added.
Samples for COVID-19 test from the seven drivers have been lifted and sent to the lab in Pasteur Institute in Coonoor.
Samples will be taken from the 40 drivers too, he said.
As many as 1,300 people, who entered the district with e-pass, are under home quarantine.