The state government on Tuesday sealed its borders with Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jharkhand to ensure strict implementation of the countrywide lockdown for preventing Covid-19 spread. Thousands of migrants have come back to Bihar over the past few days.
Even as all the postgraduate departments and colleges of Patna University (PU) have been shut due to the coronavirus lockdown, its central dispensary is extending medial help to the people residing on the campus and in the neighbourhood.
Amid increase in number of coronavirus cases, the state health department on Sunday decided to test blood samples of all those who came to Bihar from foreign countries on or after March 18. The details of those who came to the state from abroad between March 10 and March 18 will be verified.
The East Central Railway (ECR) has reserved 743 beds at its hospitals in five divisional headquarters – Danapur, Mughalsarai, Dhanbad, Sonepur and Samastipur – for the treatment of coronavirus patients.
Thousands of migrant workers reached Bihar from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana and other states during the last 24 hours on Sunday. They were screened for Covid-19 symptoms and kept for 14 days in the ‘disaster relief camps’ set up by the state government in the border areas.
Muzaffarpur district magistrate has ordered to lodge an FIR against the district labour superintendent for not only defying the orders of the state government in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak but also for his misconduct with serving public servants.
