Anil Vij: Devotees returning from Kumbh will be tested

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 19

Health Minister Anil Vij today announced that devotees returning from Kumbh Mela would be tested for Covid at entry points of Haryana.

He added that patients going to private and government hospitals with symptoms like cough, cold, sore throat or fever would also be tested. Surgery in civil hospitals has been discontinued.

He made the announcements while presiding over the meeting of the state-level Covid Monitoring Committee today.

He further said that the Health Department would take initiative to conduct Covid tests and to administer vaccine to farmers sitting on dharna on the Haryana border.

For this, talks would be held first with the farmers’ leaders.

He directed the Director General of Police and other officers that as per Covid rules issued by the government, a ban on the fairs organised in the state should be ensured till further orders.

He clarified that no lockdown would be imposed in the state.

The Health Minister said that for the care of critical patients of Covid, instructions have been given to create ‘Critical Corona Care Centres’ in all the government medical colleges of the state.