Balangir to intensify screening of returnees

Bhubaneswar: After two positive cases in Balangir district were traced to Tamil Nadu, the migrants working in the textile, construction and hospitality sectors there will come under intensive screening once they return.
“From Tamil Nadu and Telangana, we expect around 50,000 migrants to return to the district. We have made adequate arrangements to receive them at the railway stations and at different drop points if they come by bus.Soon after their arrival, they will be screened. The ones, arriving from Tamil Nadu will undergo thermal screening. They will also be asked a few questions about their period of stay, where they had worked and how they had maintained personal hygiene. This will help us segregate the migrants so that they can be kept in different government quarantine facilities,” said a district level officer.
Sources said the migrants have completed registration process, which the Odisha government has made mandatory for them to return. In Telangana, the migrants mostly work in brick kilns, in Tamil Nadu the labourers mostly work in textile factories.