Gaya DM: Ensure Covid test of migrant workers

GAYA: With migrant workers returning home in large numbers from different states, the administration has initiated steps to check further spread of Covid in the district.
Gaya DM Abhishek Singh has asked the sub-divisional officers (SDOs) to ensure that the migrant workers are tested for Covid at the railway stations and bus stands. “If tested positive, they will have to remain either in home isolation or at the quarantine centre at the sub-divisional headquarter,” the DM said.
At a virtual meeting with crisis management group on Friday, the DM asked the SDOs to get quarantine centres ready in their respective jurisdictions.
“Areas from where positive cases are being reported should be made containment zones. Malls and shops in the containment zones should remain shut. The shops of those violating Covid guidelines should be sealed for a week,” the DM told the officials.
The DM has also asked the officials concerned to ensure vaccination of employees of civil court, railway, banks and electricity and postal departments once the process to vaccinate people above 18 years of age starts on May 1. The DM reiterated that salaries of those healthcare and frontline workers who have not taken their second dose of vaccine would be withheld.