This story is from May 28, 2020

Purulia, Bankura see Covid uptick as migrants return

Purulia, Bankura see Covid uptick as migrants return
Kolkata/Purulia/Bankura/Midnapore: Purulia and Bankura, which so far did not figure on West Bengal’s Covid prevalence map, have now reported positive cases linked to migrants’ return to these districts.
On Tuesday night, a migrant returnee from Maharashtra, who is a resident of Purulia’s Adra, tested Covid-positive. His swab sample was collected soon after his return along with three others, all neighbours in an Adra village.
The four were housed at an isolation centre.
On Wednesday, the migrant who tested positive was sent to a Covid hospital in Durgapur. Authorities also barricaded the area around the primary school in Adra — that houses the isolation centre — and declared it a containment zone. Purulia SP S Selva Murugan visited the area and said: “We are taking all measures in accordance with government guidelines.”
A resident of Purulia’s Balarampur — a businessman — too tested Covid-positive at a private hospital in Jamshedpur in neighbouring Jharkhand. He was admitted there on Monday with chest pain. The mandatory swab test showed he was Covid-positive.
After the Purulia administration received information from Jharkhand, authorities asked his wife and mother to remain quarantined at home. The businessman’s son too is in Jamshedpur.
Bankura too had a good Covid record with only two positive cases. But that figure shot up to 13 on Tuesday night when swab reports of 11 migrant workers from the district, who returned home on Monday, turned out positive.
These migrants, all from Bankura’s Chatna, had returned from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. All 11, who were at an isolation centre in Chatna, were on Wednesday sent to Durgapur’s Sanaka hospital.

The Bankura administration is on tenterhooks as some 1,200 migrant workers are scheduled to return home on Thursday on a Shramik Special from Maharashtra.
On Tuesday, seven migrant workers, who had returned from Mumbai to Gaighata-Bagdah area of North 24 Parganas barely a week back, tested Covid-positive. They were sent to Covid hospitals in Kolkata and Barasat’s Kadambagachi.
In West Midnapore’s Debra, villagers attacked the brother and father of a youth on Tuesday night after word spread he was on his way home from Maharashtra. Father Meghnath Samanta is in Midnapore Medical College and Hospital in a critical condition. His younger son Nimai said: “We tried to assure our neighbours that my elder brother would first spend two weeks at an isolation centre. Despite this assurance, they assaulted my father.”
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