Watch out when you stock up on that hand sanitizer to ward off the novel coronavirus, because unscrupulous elements have sniffed an opportunity in the crisis.
Dhalbhum sub-divisional officer (SDO) Chandan Kumar on Thursday raided two units for illegally manufacturing and storing sanitizers and hand washes.
“We raided a unit near Star Talkies in Burmamines for manufacturing hand wash and sanitizers without valid licence and seized the goods and sealed the unit under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. We will lodge an FIR against the owner, Manish Singh, at the Burmamines police station,” said SDO Kumar.
The other raid was conducted in Jugsalai, where a storeroom of M/s Shree Enterprises was being used to stock spurious sanitizers and hand washes.
“We will be conducting similar raids to stop hoarding of sanitizers and hand wash in view of the novel coronavirus scare,” said the SDO.
In a related development, the East Singhbhum district administration will use infrared thermometers at the 12 checkpoints.
“We will be getting 12 infrared non-contact digital forehead thermometers tomorrow (Friday) for use at the different inter-district and interstate check points across the district for screening of passengers from other states and districts entering the city. All the checkpoints will be functional from tomorrow round the clock and will have armed police force, magistrates on shift basis for carrying out mandatory screening of passengers,” said additional district magistrate (ADM), law and order, Nand Kishore Lal.
The team will be stopping all public transport including long-distance buses, cars and auto-rickshaws entering Jamshedpur.
“The deployed magistrates will seek information like name, address, travel history for the last one month, contact number, mode of travel, diseases if any, any symptoms of novel coronavirus and any contact with persons who had come from abroad in the last fortnight,” added Lal.
The check-points are at Jagannathpur and Kaliadia (both in Baharagora), Chakulia (for visitors coming from Odisha and Bengal), Ghurabandha (bordering Odisha), Bodam and Patamda (Bengal), Potka and Hata (Odisha), Pardih (from NH-33), New Domuhani Bridge (NH-33), Adityapur Toll Bridge, and Ghatshila.
The East Singhbhum child welfare committee on Friday issued a directive to all the child care and adoption centres and orphanages against allowing children to meet with their parents till further orders in view of the Covid-19 scare.
The order also directs child care centres and adoption centres to immediately inform the district health department and the committee if any of the children show flu-like symptoms.
