In Uttar Pradesh, people who have come from other states recently are being kept in quarantine camps at district headquarters.<br />''<br />'' Government has appointed a special officer to monitor the containment exercise in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad districts. AIR correspondent reports that total of 780 suspected persons who have recently came from other state are kept in Facility Quarantine and their health condition is being closely monitored.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Almost 10 thousand persons in the state are in family quarantine who were either returned from abroad or with in touch with any COVID-19 positive person. Principal Secretary health Amit Mohan Prasad said that 44 cases of corona positive patients in state are from 2 clusters and containment exercise within 3 kilometers radius of these clusters is being done by administration.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''36 positive cases of COVID-19 have surface in Gautam budh nagar and 31 of them are workers of a factory. Another 13 cases from Meerut are also connected to this factory since they came in touch with a worker who was relative of these persons.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Additional Chief Secretary Home Awanish Awasthi said that government is taking help of frontline health workers including Asha, ANM and Anganwadi workers to gather the details of persons in villages with symptoms of corona.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Popular folk singer Malini Awasthi has appealed migrants to stay put wherever they are and not to venture out of their houses. She said the lockdown announced by the government should be adhered to to defeat the outbreak of Coronavirus.</span><br />
News On AIR | March 31, 2020 11:31 AM
UP govt appoints special officer to monitor containment exercise in Gautam Budh Nagar,Ghaziabad