All UK returnees test negative for covid

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaDecember 28, 2020

All the twelve returnees from the United Kingdom have tested negative for COVID-19. 

Commissioner and Secretary in-charge of Health and Family Welfare, Sampath Kumar however said all the returnees are under isolation. 

It may be mentioned that the entire nation is on alert after the detection of a new strain of coronavirus in the UK. 

He said health workers are keeping a close watch on their health status.

The state government has asked all entrants to the State from or transited through the UK in the past 4 weeks to declare their travel history (of past 14 days) to the Surveillance Units in the State and at the Districts and undergo RT-PCR test.

The Health Department is a Press release had said, “All those tested positive shall be isolated in an institutional isolation facility in a separate (isolation) unit coordinated by the State Health Authorities. Those who are found negative on testing with RT-PCR is to undergo 7 days of institutional quarantine followed by another 7 days of home quarantine, monitored by the IDSP/District Surveillance Officers.”