Health screenings begin at Amreli’s entry points

Rajkot: Health screenings begin rigorously at the entrance to Amreli district on Thursday. Thousands of passengers who had mostly come in from Surat and Ahmedabad were screened inside the luxury and state transport buses for Covid-19 at the Chavand checkpost.
The screening has been done as part of the notification issued by Amreli district magistrate on Wednesday.
“Surat has become a corona hotspot. As the city has also been hit by the recession, there is scarcity of jobs. I thought it best to return to my native and start life anew,” said Ajit Patel, who returned from Surat to Amreli.
The decision to screen passengers at the district’s entry point was taken after it was found that most of the Covid-19 positive cases in the district had been from people travelling from Mumbai, Surat and Ahmedabad.
Amreli district has so far recorded 203 Covid positive cases and 15 deaths from the virus, while 94 positive patients are under treatment in the district.