TUC bats for stringent preventive steps

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jul 6 : The Thangmeiband United Club (TUC) has appealed to the State Government to take up stringent safety measures so as to prevent any further spread of COVID-19 at Khoyathong and surrounding areas.
Speaking to media persons at Khoyathong Polem Leikai Pukhri Achouba Mapal today, TUC president Pratap Leishangthem said that an eight year old girl who returned from Delhi on June 22 along with her parents tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday after staying in home quarantine for several days even though she tested negative earlier.
The parents tested  positive on June 28.
Even though the Government has been working hard  to contain the pandemic, it is a matter of grave concern that it seems some people working in the field are not scrupulous enough, Pratap said.
For the mother and the father had been already tested positive, the child should have been put in an institutional quarantine centre and re-tested, he opined.
“Even as we approached IMC to sanitise areas under its jurisdiction, we were told that volunteers may carry out sanitisation on their own”, he conveyed.
Whereas a large section of people particularly daily wage earners and vegetable vendors have been put under extreme misery for a protracted period by imposing lockdown throughout the State with the sole objective of containing the pandemic, it appears the authorities are not serious enough in certain areas/aspects, he remarked.
He then urged the Government to take up stringent safety measures in and around Khoyathong and also to trace and test all the contacts of the girl.
Pratap appealed to the Government to inform the volunteers working at different community quarantine centres about the SOPs, protocol and guidelines issued by the Government authorities from time to time with regard to COVID-19.
Notably, the first COVID-19 positive case in Manipur is a young woman of Thangmeiband who returned from the UK.