Goa: Micro zone at Baina after 20 labourers test positive

VASCO: The South Goa district administration has declared the residence quarters of Gammon Engineers at Baina as a micro-containment zone after 20 persons working for the company tested positive for Covid-19.
Speaking to TOI, Sachin Desai, deputy collector of Mormugao said that, “Initially, three labourers working on Gammon’s Baina flyover project who were staying in the temporary shed at the company’s residence quarters near the new RTO office at Baina contracted thevirus. We decided to get all 50 labourers tested. Of them, 20 came back positive. The contractor was asked toshift the other 30 labourers elsewhere.”
Following information from the heath officer of Vasco urban health centre, the order declaring the area as a micro-containment zone was issued by South Goa district magistrate Ruchika Katyal on June 16.
Adequate number of police has been deployed to restrict movement of people from the zone.