DIMAPUR, MAY 27 (MExN): The Angamimiapfü Mechü Krotho (AMK) today stated that there is a need to de-congest quarantine centers to prevent exponential rise of COVID cases in the State
A press release from AMK President, Kevinourheno Seyie; and General Secretary, Shürhivino Nakhro stated that the decision to hold all returnees from red zones or green zone “being mixed randomly” and placed in Kohima and Dimapur risks overcrowding the quarantine.
It therefore asked the government to recognize many villages including Jotsoma and Khonoma who are applying for recognition of their “own arranged quarantine centers so that they can take out their children to a safer center.”
It also expressed concern that since most COVID-19 patients are asymptomatic, keeping returnees in overcrowded quarantine centers in Kohima and Dimapur, has become a matter of serious concern even to the social organizations who provide them services.
“It is unfortunate that some people had attempted to put a tribal intonation to the whole episode, accusing the people of Kohima and Dimapur to be very selfish. Nevertheless, however misunderstood the civil societies of Kohima and Dimapur may sound to some, the fact remains that overcrowding in the quarantine centers of these two districts is a grave threat to all the inmates,” it added.
It further stated that all returnees should be tested by sending samples from the quarantine centers/district hospitals in the respective districts to the testing laboratory.
“Nobody is claiming the ownership of our BSL-3 lab, it is equally important for every citizen of Nagaland. Whatever said and done is in the interest of the returnees that they are not overcrowded in Kohima or Dimapur quarantine centers but quarantined in smaller groups in their safe respective destination districts,” the AMK reasoned.
