People returning from outside NE quarantined at various facility centres

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HAFLONG: At least 50 people are reported to have de-boarded in Dima Hasao till date after opening of the State borders facilitating movement of those stranded outside the Northeast, stated a press release from Dima Hasao DIPRO on Monday.

From May 14 last till today, the Dima Hasao district administration has placed 50 returnees at various facility centres in Haflong as a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the district of Dima Hasao.

These are people who boarded train from New Delhi, New Jalpaiguri, Katihar and Chennai and have been placed in different facility centres such as Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Jayashree Hotel and Siksha Bhavan in Haflong town. Fourteen swap samples have been collected and sent for testing in the first lot and the rest will be sent in the next lot.

As a step for prevention of spread of COVID -19, the district administration has requisitioned four COVID Care Centers (CCC) in four blocks, one each in Maibang, Mahur, Haflong and Harangjao. The block-level monitoring teams constituted earlier have been ordered to make the centres functional in co-ordination with the line departments.

Apart from these, the district administration has also requisitioned six lodges around the town area to be used as quarantine facility for persons coming from outside Assam or Northeast to Haflong. While the sample collection as per ACSP (Assam Community Surveillance Plan), the community-based surveillance at villages level for sever acute respiratory infections (SARI) and influenza like illness (ILI) and many other diseases, including COVID continues, 31 samples which were sent have been found to be negative. Sixty-three samples have been collected till date and will be sent in a phase manner. 

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