Take Covid test or face legal action: Kadma SDO to residents

JAMSHEDPUR: Taking a tough stand against people shying away from testing themselves for Covid-19, the East Singhbhum district administration on Sunday make the test compulsory for residents living in the Tata Steel quarters located at Kadma Uliyan loop road and warned of legal action to those who refused to undergo the test.
Notably, this area is located near the Kadma market containment zone. Kadma area SDO Nitish Kumar Singh in a letter to Tata Steel said people living in its 81 quarters have refused to undergo the test and it is illegal under the Epidemic Act. Most residents living in the quarters are family members of Tata Steel employees.
Appealing to the residents to underdo the test in the next 24 hours, Singh said only after testing the chain of infection can be broken.
Kadma is one of the hotspot zones of East Singhbhum from where the maximum number of infections are reported following which the market has been declared as a containment zone and sealed from all sides.