ONE MORE CORONA POSITIVE CASE IN ROURKELA, RMC BECOMES HYPER TO SEAL AREAS

Rajesh Mohapatra,Odishabarta

ROURKELA,09/05/20:Corona positive cases are increasing day by day in Odisha after migrant laborers have returned from Surat.  State Govt. is now very cautious to control it and taking stringent steps.

One more corona positive case is identified in Containment zone of Rourkela, panicking the people of the city. After getting this positive case Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) has sealed Power house road and Madhusudan Marg both were declared buffer zone earlier and few shops dealing with essential items were allowed to open but now all these areas have been sealed by RMC. All senior officials of local administration have rushed to the spot after getting the news. It has been included in containment zone and all due procedures are framed for containment zone will apply and system will act accordingly. In Odisha corona positive cases have jumped multifold after huge positive cases are traced in Ganjam out of which majority of patients are laborers who had returned to Odisha in the recent past. For the cause State Govt. is much more worried and a special team has formed, having members from Health department, WHO and ICMR who will visit and remain there to help in managing containment zone. Today another 14 corona positive cases have emerged and out of which 12 from Ganjam and one each from Sundergarh and Bhadrak and with this the total positive cased in Odisha has increased to 282 and out of which 62 have recovered and 2 patients have died. Now the state Govt. has increased the quarantine period to 28 days looking at the spike in new cases.