Covid-19: Himachal Pradesh CM directs officers to keep strict vigil on migrant labourers

SHIMLA: Chief minister Jai Ram Thakur asked the administrative and police officers to keep a strict vigil on the arrival of migrant labourers, particularly in industrial units.
While presiding over a meeting with deputy commissioners, superintendents of police and chief medical officers of the state through video conferencing from Shimla on Wednesday, the CM said that keeping in view the festive season, the state government has decided not to open the temples and other religious places for the time being to avoid overcrowding and spread of coronavirus infection.
Jai Ram Thakur directed the officers to strictly enforce the decision of allowing the participation of not more than 50 persons in marriages and other family functions. He said that state government had decided that industrialists or their contractors in the industrial areas would be allowed to bring labourers after due approval from the administration and would be kept in quarantine as per guidelines issued by the health department.
He said that big industrial units will have to create adequate quarantine capacity, whereas small units can pool for creating the quarantine facility. He also directed the industries and labour and employment departments to keep a strict vigil on industrial units to follow the SOP issued from time to time in this regard.
He also directed the chief medical officers to increase testing capacity of Covid-19 in their respective districts. He said that all the persons with ILI symptoms should be invariably tested for Covid-19 besides ensuring proper testing of all the primary and secondary contacts of Covid-19 patients.