CCpur restrictions streamlined
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, May 07 2021:
A day after the District Magistrate Churachandpur notified the entire revenue jurisdiction of Churachandpur district as a containment zone effectively prohibiting activities and movement of person except for those identified as essential ones, more orders have been issued to streamline the functioning of banks, treasuries and post offices.
The order issued by the District Magistrate instructed that all banks shall remain open till 2.30 pm only for Government transactions, transactions related to Covid-19 Management and for urgent matters.
Treasuries are to remain functional with minimal staff to discharge urgent transactions, while post offices shall remain open from 10 am to 2.30 pm to dispose time bound works including delivery of medicines and medical equipment.
They are however to not entertain routine business, it said.
Meanwhile reliable sources have indicated that the District Hospital Churachandpur yesterday ran out of medical oxygen for a few minutes forcing the nurses attending the patients to ingeniously deploy a stethoscope tube to make two patients share one oxygen cylinder.
The shortage however was quickly addressed as new batches of supplies arrived reportedly within minutes.
Today 3 more patients were admitted to the Covid Dedicated Ward, District Hospital to take the total number of patients in critical care to 16.Churachandpur has witnessed an exponential growth in Covid-19 cases in the past seven days adding more than 150 new cases.
The current active cases now stand at 208.In the past six days, the district witnessed 5 deaths to take the total case of fatality to 52 .