Ahmedabad: Labourers to get corona scan at railway stations

AHMEDABAD: From Sunday, the AMC will start a drive to ensure that no Covid positive labourer enters the city. On Friday, the civic body had sealed the bullet train construction site after it found 52 labourers positive. The AMC will begin scanning those entering the city through railway stations.
AMC officials said that over the past week, authorities have found a large number of infected labourers at three major sites. The officials said that 125 labourers were found positive at a PSP construction site; 22 at a North construction site; and 52 at the bullet train construction site.
The officials said that the infected labourers can transmit the disease to many co-workers. Hence the AMC decided that all labourers will be checked at railway station stage itself.
The officials said that the majority of those found infected were from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar. These labourers will return to their native states. An official said that as the drive to check large organizations began, it was decided to examine construction labourers as well.
AMC teams will be deployed at Kalupur, Sabarmati, and Maninagar stations. Those who test positive will be sent to Covid care centres or hospitals depending on the symptoms.
An official said that earlier, check posts had been set up on all highways to scan people and over 1,800 positive cases were found.