Tripura: Breach of Border Reported as People Enter State amid Lockdown

Agartala, March 30, 2020:

Tripura is witnessing breach of border as many people have entered the State through Assam border and illegal routes despite strict restrictions amid nationwide lockdown.

According to Tripura Health Secretary Debasish Basu, “There is no way to deny the fact that people are entering Tripura despite restrictions in all the borders but what seems to be a matter of relief is that no one have been tested positive yet in the state”.

He added, “In our state control room, reports are pouring in claiming movement of people across Tripura-Assam and Tripura-Bangladesh borders. The movement are, of course unlawful by nature but, the way local masses are showing co-operation, it had enabled us to mark each and every person entering the state. Wherever reports of home coming have been reported, the entire family has been home quarantined”, Basu added.

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Charting the present statistics of the people lodged in quarantine, he said, "as of now the cumulative figure of quarantined people now stands at 7,614. Among them, 976 have already completed the 14 days period. 69 people have been lodged in institutional isolation. And, altogether 96 people samples are tested as of now with no positive reports yet."

Addressing a Press conference in the civil secretariat here, Joint coordinator of the state control room, Subhasish Das, who had also accompanied Basu, said, "So far, the control room has received 361 calls and resolved queries of 254 people. The people who are stranded on different parts of the country are being addressed regularly. In some cases as per the standard protocols feedback calls have been given in response to the queries."

Speaking on the food availability and rationing, Dr. Basu said, already 38 percent people have lifted their rations from various fair price shops who fall under the priority group categories. The civic bodies have identified 1,500 people belong daily laborer category who would be given take way rations for seven days free of cost in spite of cooked food.

He also assured that adequate stock of food was available in and there was no reason to worry about.

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As coronavirus is expanding its footprint across the country, Tripura is also trying to cater to the protective and essential needs of its people. To meet the State's requirements and to combat coronavirus in case of an outbreak, Tripura Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma today wrote to renowned industrialist and chairman of Tata trusts Ratan Tata seeking his assistance in order to fight the global pandemic COVID-19. Dev Varma in his letter mentioned that the state of Tripura required some assistance from the part of everyone to fight the novel coronavirus, which had been declared as a pandemic by the WHO.

The Deputy Chief Minister also included a requirement draft where he mentioned that the state of Tripura needed not less than 100 ventilators 50,000 personal protection kits, 1 lakh N95 masks, 50,000 bottles of alcohol based hand sanitizers and 500 makeshift tents to attend the adult patients.

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