The health and family Welfare Department today identified 10 new persons hailing from Maharashtra who had visited the Tablighi Jamaat at Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz from the Bitarban area of Agartala and put them on institutional quarantine. Not less than 6 of their close contacts had been also shifted to quarantine along with them, sources in the state health and family welfare department confirmed.
These persons were in-home quarantine since they were from Corona Hotpot Maharashtra but their Tablighi link reveled today, a surveillance team under the leadership of ADM Siddharth S Jaiswal and CMO west Tripura Aditi Majumder rushed to the spot today and shifted them to Isolation.
“They have been lodged in institutional quarantine at Co-operative” sources added. Later on, addressing a Press Conference at Civil Secretariat, state disease surveillance officer Deep Debbarma said, “The total number of Nizam returnees raised up to 50 right now. As per the first-hand information, we identified 26 people. Later 14 more have been traced in the North Tripura district who reached Dharmanagar boarding Tripura Sundari express. All the earlier identified persons tested negative and the swab samples of the newly identified persons are under the procedure of testing. Hopefully by Sunday final reports will come”.
Speaking on the issue, he said, according to the returnees they arrived here in the state on March 18 last and stayed at the residence of their close relatives. As a precautionary measure, all the 6 people of the family where the returnees used to stay had been also shifted to institutional quarantine, he added.
According to local sources, all of them came here to perform some religious activities and got stranded due to the lockdown. On being asked whether any legal actions would be taken against them or not for willingly not disclosing their identity, Health Secretary Debasish Basu said, they might have concealed their identity as apparently no symptoms of infection appeared yet.
Meanwhile, speaking about the present status of the people under surveillance, Health Secretary Debasish Basu said, “Total 4910 persons are in quarantine now. As many as 4782 persons including 104 international travelers are under Home Quarantine. Total 128 including 1 international traveler are under Facility Quarantine Centers”.
“Altogether 191 samples have been tested till today which all reported being “negative”. As many as 4954 persons have completed the 14 days observation period so far”, Basu informed media.
On the latest developments about the two positive cases confirmed in Bikaner who also participated in the Nizamuddin markaz, he said, “Two citizens of Tripura who have been tested COVID19 positive in Bikaner, Rajasthan are stable now and they are undergoing treatment in a local hospital of the state. They left the state on 5th March last and didn’t return Tripura after attending the religious event in Nizamuddin. Their families in Tripura are under observation now”.
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