Dimapur, May 17 (EMN): After the Nagaland government’s announcement of one-time assistance, at total of 4,095 stranded citizens have chosen to stay back at their respective places, according to an official update on Sunday.
Home Commissioner Abhijit Sinha, in his daily Covid-19 briefing, informed that those persons have filled up the required form on the portal iamstranded.nagaland.gov.in for availing the one-time assistance of INR 10,000.
“The facility for making application closed at 7 pm, yesterday (May 16),” he added.
Also, a total of 1382 persons have arrived in Nagaland from other states till date, Sinha said.
“The chief secretary, Nagaland conducted a video conference meeting with all the deputy commissioners, superintendents of police and the chief medical officers of the eleven districts today, and deliberated on the quarantine arrangements being made for the stranded citizens of Nagaland returning from other states and all the protocols that need to be followed,’ he informed.
952 samples sent
The home commissioner said that 952 suspected Covid-19 samples have been sent for testing from Nagaland so far.
The results of 914 samples have returned negative and the remaining 38 await confirmation, he informed.
“Today, a total of 3004 persons have been screened and a total of 1406 persons are under facility quarantine. Through the Nagaland Covid-19 toll free helpline number- 1800-345-001 of Health and Family Welfare department, a total of 595 calls have been registered for telemedicine consultation, mental health counselling, digital support for app users, Covid information centre and complaints and grievance redressal. A total of 759 persons are currently being monitored through the nCOVID-19 Nagaland- Visitors App,” Sinha said.
