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After a feast, contaminated returnees flee quarantine centre in Odisha

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By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: Three migrants who had examined constructive for Covid-19 and have been remoted at a faculty at Ghodansh panchayat of Naugaon block, escaped in an inebriated situation on Thursday. Apparently earlier than fleeing, they went to the native market, bought rooster together with liquor and carried out a feast on the quarantine centre.

Later within the night, the three have been nabbed by police hiding in a paddy discipline. They have been lodged on the Mugei Kalidas ME School. Two of them – from Jamudanda – and one other from Mugei village underneath Naugaon police limits had returned from Bengaluru on May 6 and have been remoted on the quarantine centre arrange on the college premises. They subsequently examined constructive and have been being supplied remedy on the centre.

In absence of any safety on the quarantine centre, sources mentioned that the three on Thursday morning went to Naugaon Bazaar and acquired rooster and liquor. They then returned to prepare dinner a feast. After consuming their meals and consuming liquor, the returnees in an inebriated situation fled the quarantine centre in a motorbike. 

Receiving data, Naugaon BDO Rashmi Rekha Mallick rushed to the centre and knowledgeable police. A group of police personnel led by IIC of Naugaon police station Bharat Behera later traced the three who have been hiding in a paddy discipline, a couple of km away from the Mugei Kalidas ME School. They have been stored in one other quarantine centre in a close-by panchayat, the BDO knowledgeable. The State authorities has mandated 14-day institutional quarantine of returnees from different states at non permanent medical camps.