Myanmar returnees quarantined
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, April 30 2020:
With the State security apparatus maintaining a strict vigil to thwart cross border movement along the porous Indo-Myanmar, two women who ventured into Myanmar and returned yesterday forced the district authorities to pick them up last night.
The duo are now kept at the district quarantine centre for observation, sources said.
A resident of Ngaljang village under Sinhngat subdivision, the women - aged 48 and 60 respectively entered Myanmar sometime in March last week in search of work.
They returned to their village yesterday despite the restrictions imposed along the border prompting local authorities, with the assistance of the security forces to immediately pick them up.
Officials from the Medical Department on receiving information about the unauthorised entry, headed for the village along with a team of security personnel.
They picked up the duo and took them to the district quarantine centre.
Earlier two men, who returned to their villages from the Myanmar on different dates had been picked up from Ngaljang and Zoukhonom villages by the local authorities.
They too have landed at the quarantine centre.
With the two men still doing their time at the quarantine centre, the people who entered the country from Myanmar after authorities mounted an extra vigil along the border now stands at four.
The District Surveillance Unit Churachandpur jas so far placed 292 people under its radar as a preventive measure
against Covid-19 .
Of these 19 people have been tested for COVID-19 with all samples returning negative.
As of today, a total of 8 people - three woman and five men are doing their time at the district quarantine centre.