Bhubaneswar: Puri district administration sealed the Pipili locality early Saturday morning after a COVID-19 positive case was detected here. The sealing has been done to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
Puri collector Balwant Singh, in a notification, said Danagahir village under Pipili Block is being declared affected area. A ‘containment zone’ was announced around it to restrict public from entering into and going out of the place.
The area coming within the boundary of Danagahir square, Jayapur square and Jayapur Sasan square has been marked as containment zone. Movement to and from these places will be restricted till midnight of April 14, 2020, a notification issued by the district administration said.
Jajpur district collector Ranjan Kumar Dash said the administration has sealed the entire Brahmabarada area to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
Notably, the state has identified 28 persons who returned from the religious congregation at Nizamuddin so far. One each in Cuttack, Puri and Jajpur have been tested positive.
Meanwhile, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged people to cooperate and help the administration to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Naveen Patnaik has asked people not to step out of their homes where the 48-hour shutdown has been implemented – Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Bhadrak.
The Odisha Chief Minister has said that the complete shutdown for 48 hours will help the government trace others who have contracted the disease or may have come in contact with those affected by coronavirus. By tracing such persons the chances of community spread of coronavirus will diminish considerably.
In spite of the 48 hours complete shutdown, movement of goods vehicles will continue on the national highways passing through Bhadrak and Cuttack districts as well as through the state capital.
In a separate development, the Odisha government has set up 407 shelter camps for stranded migrant workers in the state. More than 27,000 migrant workers are currently being kept in these shelter homes and are being provided with food and other facilities. These migrant workers are from different parts of India including West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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