Coronavirus | More houses declared containment areas in Shillong

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaAugust 20, 2020

The District Magistrate East Khasi Hills has declared mores houses in Shillong as containment areas for detecting high risk contacts as to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the district.

This includes the house of Baldeep Singh, Maya Kaur and Janki Kaur in Plot-I block A at Sweeper Colony, Mawlongha and house of Nud Syiemiong, Pynthorbah Block-II.

The District magistrate also extended the containment areas in Jhalupara and superseded the order issued earlier. The areas which were placed under containment areas include Jhalupara Community Hall, Gopal Ji Compound, Musa Compound and Maya Compound, Jhalupara.

The order restricted unregulated movement and exit movement in the affected areas which require aggressive contact tracing, quarantine, testing and isolation as well as containment in the interest of the health of the general public against any possible spread of COVID-19.