Isolation, shelter homes earmarked in Solan

Tribune News Service

Solan, March 30

The district administration has identified isolation, quarantine and shelter homes for use when necessary.

Isolation centres have been earmarked at the Regional Hospital, Solan; Community Health Centre, Nalagarh; MMU Medical College, Solan; and ESIC hospitals at Baddi and Parwanoo. Institutional quarantine facilities have been created at eight places in the district and shelter homes have been set up at Solan, Parwanoo, Baddi, Nalagarh, Ramshehar, Kandaghat and Arki to accommodate 2,745 persons, said Vivek Chandel, Additional District Magistrate (ADM).

The district administration was also receiving complaints of people making false calls for ration. A resident of Dattowal in Nalagarh was booked for making a false call at 6 am today. Following his call, officials visited his house but found that he had stocked 30 kg of ration, said Chandel.

“As many as 550 persons have been given shelter at various designated places in Baddi police district and food, sanitation and bedding facilities are being provided to them there. Besides, police buses have been deployed to pick people found roaming on roads and transport them back home,” said Rohit Malpani, SP, Baddi.

He added that landlords had been warned not to turn out migrants and industrial workers if they fail to pay rent and the police today restored 32 such people to their rented accommodation here.

More quarantined

Six persons, who had come from Chennai and Meerut and were entering Baddi without any valid reason, were sent to quarantine homes. The Baddi administration has also put up a signage warning outsiders not to enter the place, failing which they would be sent in quarantine.

Meanwhile, 50 people have been quarantined in the bordering areas of Kala Amb and Paonta Sahib in Sirmaur district for 14 days.

Deputy Commissioner, Sirmaur, RK Pruthi, said 13 persons had been quarantined at Kala Amb and 37 at Paonta Sahib as entry of outsiders has been banned.

He said the district administration has initiated home delivery services both in the urban and rural areas and 1,556 people have benefited till now. As many as 865 families have bought grocery items through 108 vendors who were providing these services at the doorsteps. Besides, 17 fruit and vegetable vendors have provided commodities to 362 families in various parts of the district. Medicines have also been provided to 362 families by 156 chemists.

69 home-quarantined in Chamba

Chamba, March 30

As many as 69 international travellers were under home quarantine in Chamba district, said Chief Medical Officer Dr Rajesh Guleri in a WhatsApp post this evening.

The CMO said all travellers were asymptomatic and normal and that no sample had been sent as yet. “However, as part of efforts to curb the spread of Covid, our health staff will keeping monitoring the situation,” said Dr Rajesh Guleri. OC