Health workers tasked to report Maharashtra returnees in Mandya

Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and anganwadi workers in K.R. Pet and Nagamangala taluks in Mandya district have been assigned a new task – to alert the health authorities on coming across new persons in the households – as a measure to curb the spread of COVID-19 since many from these two taluks work in Maharashtra, which has reported a spike in cases triggering the scare of a second wave of infection.

These two taluks had reported the highest number of cases last year as many locals returned to their respective villages from the neighbouring State following the lockdown and for other reasons. Though the checkposts put up on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border in Belagavi district screen the people entering the State besides checking the COVID-19 negative reports, it had come to light that people used alternative routes to enter the State in their own mode of transport during the outbreak last year to dodge screening and quarantine rules.