Negligible cases, 30 isolation centres in Kanina block shut

Tribune News Service

Mahendragarh, June 3

More than 30 Covid isolation centres in villages of the district have been closed, as the number of active cases in these villages is negligible. A majority of these villages is in the Kanina block.

Sources say isolation centres were set up in all 53 villages of the Kanina block for persons who had no facility at home. Most of them lacked facilities. A case in point was the isolation centre in Dhanonda village, where only mattresses were kept on the floor for patients.

The decision to close isolation centres was taken a couple of days after The Tribune had reported about the sorry state of affairs of the Dhanonda centre.

Tarun Panwaria, nodal officer (isolation centre), said: “Kanina officials were asked to open isolation centres only in hotspot villages, but the facilities were opened in all villages of the block. Since a majority of the villages don’t have a single case, officials have been asked to close the centres.”

Now, only 10 centres would be kept open in villages where cases were high, he added.

Deputy Commissioner Ajay Kumar said some isolation centres had been closed temporarily so that health teams deployed there could visit other villages, which were still battling high cases of Covid.

“Centres can be set up in a day, if needed. However, the positivity rate has come down considerably in the district. Only 19 persons tested positive on Thursday, while 114 patients recovered,” he added.