Health dept begins screening of passengers from Kerala

With the number of people returning from the neighbouring state of Kerala testing positive for Covid-19, the district administration has geared up to check the spread of the pandemic and has taken precautionary measures at the Karnataka-Chamarajanagar border.

Health, Revenue, Forest and Police department personnel are on their toes, monitoring the vehicles at Molehole and Kekkanahall checkposts and are subjecting the passengers to thermal screening.

Taluk health officer Dr Ravikumar said that all vehicles coming from Kerala are stopped and the passengers are screened with thermal scanners.

Cars, buses, tempos, lorries, tipper vehicles and motorbikes are intercepted at the checkposts. If the passengers are found to have variations in body temperature, all measures are taken to conduct tests on them at Kaggala Primary Health Centre, he said.