Khaunte urges CM for lockdown in Porvorim locality

Panaji: Hours after a 70-year-old man tested positive for COVID-19 at a locality in Porvorim constituency on Wednesday, the local MLA Rohan Khaunte wrote to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant urging him to consider imposing lockdown in the particular area.

Khaunte claimed that the new case at ‘Paithona, Salvador Do Mundo’ has caused chaos and panic among the residents in his constituency.

“I kindly request you to issue immediate lockdown of the area or alternatively declare the area as containment zone till the reports of the primary contacts of the active patient along with the other members of that area are known to us, to prevent the spread of the virus,” reads the letter written by Khaunte to Chief Minister. The Porvorim MLA claimed that around 150-200 people reside in the area.