Orange tag under threat: Six fresh Covid cases; tally rises to 25 in Nadia, leaders defy protocols

Mohua Maitra may alert the people, but her party leaderships in the district do not adhere to the protocol for containing the disease. Even, she herself defied protocols when she took part in a programme where the state's forest minister and the party's Nadia district observer Rajib Banerjee paid a visit to the house of the person who died during super cyclone Amphan.

Biswabrata Goswami

Statesman News Service

KRISHNAGAR, 23 MAY: Yet another six migrant workers, who returned their houses from Maharashtra, tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of official cumulative cases in Nadia to 25 in the last 24 hours.

The district administration, however, deleted four positive cases from its account citing reason that they had tested positive outside the district. At present the district has 16 active cases and three persons have been discharged today.

As the Nadia district falls under the orange zone, the fresh new six cases in a single day may put it into the red zone.

Dr Asit Kumar Dewan, deputy CMOH-II said, “All the six migrants have come from Mharashtra. They are residents of Gangnapur and Dhantala areas in Ranaghat. We sent the swab samples to Kolkata two days ago and their test reports have come positive for Covid-19 last night”.

Dr Dewan also said that a total of 30 persons, all relatives and family members of the migrants have been advised to stay in home quarantine and their swab samples have also been collected for tests.

All the six migrant workers have been admitted to the Kalyani SNR Covid hospital, said Dr Ayan Ghosh, in-charge of the covid hospital.

A few days ago, two migrant workers from Kerala had tested positive and they are the residents of Tehatta and Thanarpara areas.

Four days ago before the two migrants tested positive, seven persons including a nine-month-old girl had tested positive for Covid-19 in the last two consecutive days, taking the total number of cumulative cases to 16 till 14 May.

Panic gripped the locality soon after they were found tested positive.

In a message, Mohua Maitra, a Trinamul Congress MP immediately urged to the people saying “The time has now come to be cautious about the spread of the virus because many migrant workers will come from other states in coming days. It was seen the family members of the worker at Thanarpara had met neighbours and went to markets. If their test reports come negative, then there will be no problem. But, if the report comes positive, then we will have to send the persons who came in contact with them in quarantine center to prevent any further spread of the disease in the community.”

Ms Maitra may alert the people, but her party leaderships in the district do not adhere to the protocol for containing the disease. Even, she herself defied protocols when she took part in a programme where the state's forest minister and the party's Nadia district observer Rajib Banerjee paid a visit to the house of the person who died during super cyclone Amphan. Mr Banerjee handed over a cheque of Rs 2.50 lakh to the family members of the deceased in Krishnagar today.

During his visit, it was seen, the TMC leaders and the administrative officials came close to each other, thus violating the protocols. Though, the strict restrictions had been enforced for the journalists and photographers.  

Today, Gouri Dutta, a TMC MLA from Tehatta organized a meeting with Imams where it was seen that none bothered to maintain social distance while attending the meeting.

In Chapra, the party’s minister for correctional homes, Ujjal Biswas did the same thing where workers did defied protocols. 

Even, the opposition BJP leaders put the similar instance alike the ruling party leaders when they squatted in front of the Krishnagar municipality gate in Krishnagar on various issues. They violated protocols while conducting the agitation.