Entry into Mohali from notified points only, says Girish Dayalan
Tribune News Service
Mohali, May 5
Mohali District Magistrate Girish Dayalan, along with nodal officers, today notified the entry points on highways and link roads into the district.
For people visiting the district from Himachal Pradesh, an inter-state highway checkpoint had been set up at Siswan-Baddi road in Siswan village.
Border checkpoints
Inter-state border checkpoints have been set up at various link roads in Peer Muchhalla, T-point Antala, Barwala road, Ramgarh-Mubarakpur road, Daffarpur and Harmilap Nagar, Baltana.
He said for those entering the district from Haryana, inter-state border checkpoints on highways had been set up near Sekhon Banquet Hall, Zirakpur, on the Panchkula highway.
Other inter-state checkpoints for those entering the district from Haryana have been set up at Ambala to Naraingarh highway and Ambala to Chandigarh highway Jharmari, Lalru.
Similarly, inter-state border checkpoints had been set up at various link roads in Peer Muchhalla, T-point Antala, Barwala road, Ramgarh-Mubarakpur road, Daffarpur and Harmilap Nagar, Baltana, he said.
Dayalan said the nodal officer would ensure registration of data of inbound passengers at covid.punjab.gov.in/policereg as per the standard operating procedure.
He said the Mohali Civil Surgeon would depute multipurpose health workers for round-the-clock duty at these entry points for screening each person entering the state. He said anybody found symptomatic would be taken to nearest sub-divisional hospital. If found positive, the person would be shifted to the notified isolation facility, he added.
The District Magistrate said the nodal officer would send the data collected about persons coming from other states, but wishing to go to other district of Punjab, to the DCs concerned to ensure supervision of all such persons for at least 14 days.
There would be no embargo on goods carriers, but their screening was a must, he added.