Newmai News Network
Imphal | July 26
The COVID-19 situation in Manipur is grim as more and more areas have been declared containment zones by the Health department. The Health department has also declared Chief Minister’s Secretariat and state Police headquarters as containment zones after a staff of the state Health department deputed at the COVID-19 Common Control Room was tested positive for COVID-19.
According to an official report, a staff of the National Health Mission (NHM) engaged as data entry operator at the COVID-19 Common Control Room was tested positive for the virus late Saturday evening. He tested positive for the virus during contact tracing of a doctor hailing from Thoubal district and currently posted at Senapati district hospital.
After the staff was tested positive, a rigorous contact tracing was started in the chief minister’s secretariat where the common control room is housed at the Durbar Hall of the secretariat. The COVID-19 common control room had already been sealed last night after the result of the staff confirmed for the virus.
Media persons, who attended a news conference of Chief Minister N Biren Singh on July 22 at the same hall (Durbar Hall), are also asked to undergo home quarantine by the concerned authority. They are likely to test for the virus on Monday.
Regarding the state Police headquarters, it was declared as a containment zone as it is located adjacent to the chief minister’s secretariat.
Meanwhile, Manipur Health minister L Jayentakumar along with his family members and his close relatives underwent tests on Sunday. Samples of security personnel who were posted as personal cum home guards of the minister were also tested. However, all the test results returned negative.
Samples of the minister and his relatives and others were tested while contact tracing of three relatives of the ministers were tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
Reports said that a nephew of the minister who sustained severe injuries after he met with a road accident on July 24 was found positive for the virus on the next day. The injured nephew was tested for the virus on the recommendation of the doctors who attended him at Shija hospital in Imphal before a surgery.
Instantly after the test result returned positive for COVID-19, persons who attended him at the time of accident were tested and two of them including a son of the injured person were found positive for COVID-19, sources said.
The patient has been shifted to Covid care facility of RIMS hospital while the fourth floor of the Shija hospital has been sealed keeping the doctors and nurses who attended the patient and other patients in the same floor under quarantine in the same ward of the hospital.
