Situation under control, no community spread – Peren DC

Our Reporter
Dimapur, July 2 (EMN): Peren district administration has demarcated and barricaded the containment zone in order to prevent community spread following the detection of Covid-19 positive cases in two persons undergoing home quarantine.

The deputy commissioner (DC) of Peren, Sentiwapang Aier, informed that contact tracing is on. One of the patients is from Jalukie, and the other from Tening; both of them have been kept at the Covid-19 hospital, he said.

Even though it is officially called home quarantine, the returnees are ‘technically kept at ‘community quarantine facility’, the DC said, adding that most of the homes were not suitable and safe for quarantine.

Aier informed that ‘somehow, the two cases went home due to several reasons and unfortunately tested positive’, following which they had to contain the area.

Depending on the outcome of contact tracing, the demarcation of containment zone will also change, he said.

All those who come under the containment zone will be home quarantined and will be monitored daily by Asha workers and personnel from the Health department, Aier added.

According to the DC, the situation is under control ‘as of now’. He informed that returnees from Haryana were sent to their respective villages and towns for home quarantine.

Aier said that asymptomatic male patients have been referred to Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) which has been converted to Covid care centre at Jalukie, and added that to segregate the inmates, they have indentified another location.

For female patients, they had initially identified one place but due to objections from the residents, they have decided to convert the Rural Self Employment Training Institute to a Covid care centre, the DC said.

Despite the ‘difficult situation’, Aier said that they can manage those who have arrived in Peren ‘as of now’ since Dimapur has taken up the responsibility to take care of the fresh returnees.

He informed that as of July 2, around 700 returnees were undergoing facilities quarantine in Peren and added that positive cases can be managed in the available facilities.

‘But the only concern is for those negative cases, as the inmates have to be segregated if anyone tests positive; and for that we need separate building and separate rooms, otherwise the cycle continues,’ he said.