Mau quarantines 59 suspected cases in Covid-care rail coaches

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Varanasi: Mau district administration has started utilising Covid-19 coaches arranged by the Railways at Mau junction of Varanasi division of North Eastern Railway (NER). So far, 59 people who had come into contact of confirmed cases have been quarantined in these coaches.
District magistrate Mau Gyan Prakash Tripathi said, “As many as 42 suspected Covid-19 positive cases on June 20 and 17 on Sunday were accommodated in these Covid-19 coaches at Mau Junction.”
Mau has over 80 Covid-19 cases, of which 57 have been cured and discharged. The district has 48 beds in L1 facility, where 26 active cases are admitted.
He said that these 59 people are those who had remained in contact of confirmed Covid-19 cases and have been quarantined following contact tracing till their lab test reports arrive.
Tripathi said for suspected cases, an institutional quarantine centre had been created at BR Ambedkar Degree College. But, as the universityies are giving tentative dates for examinations and the campus had to be sanitised by June 24, the district administration decided to utilise the Covid-19 coaches of railway to quarantine suspected cases.
Railways has deployed total 960 Covid-19 care coaches in five states, of which 372 area available in Uttar Pradesh and deployed at 23 different locations including Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction Chandauli, Lucknow, Varanasi, Bhadohi, Faizabad, Saharanpur, Mirzapur, Subedarganj, Kanpur, Jhansi, Jhansi Workshop, Agra, Nakha Jungle, Gonda, Nautanwa, Bahraich, Varanasi City, Manduadih, Mau, Bhatni, Bareilly City, Farrukhabad and Kasganj.
These coaches can be used for very mild cases that can be clinically assigned to the Covid care centres as per guidelines issued by the ministry of health and family welfare. These coaches can be used in areas where a state has exhausted the facilities and needs to augment capacities for isolation of both suspect and confirmed Covid cases. These facilities are part of the integrated Covid-19 plan developed by MoHFW and Niti Ayog.