Bihar: Corona-hit village in Sitamarhi sealed

SITAMARHI/PATNA: The district authorities on Thursday swung into action and sealed Jhukti Bokhra village under Nanpur panchayat of the district on Thursday after four fresh Covid-19 positive cases were reported. The total tally of positive cases in the district has gone upto six.
Sitamarhi DM Abhilasha Kumari Sharma and SP Anil Kumar visited the village and took stock of the situation.The DM also issued instructions to the officers concerned to enforce lockdown norms strictly and sealed the villages falling in a radius of 3 km as precautionary measure.
District public relations officer (DPRO) Parimal Kumar said that Bokhra village was declared containment zone after four people—three men and one woman—tested positive for Covid-19. While the men aged 32,41 and 42, were kept in quarantine, the woman (38) years was admitted to NMCH.
Three accompanied a cancer patient who had gone to the IGIMS, Patna, for treatment after they returned from Mumbai. On Monday, a 55-year-old woman from Pupari in the district had tested positive followed by a youth of Nanpur, who had returned from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. “The four positive patients belonged to one family,” a senior health department official said.
In West Champaran, five members of a family belonging to Yogapatti area tested positive on Wednesday. The district authorities have initiated preventive measures in the containment zone. Houses were being sanitized while people have been asked to remain indoors and maintain social distancing.