Anandwan Ashram, a special facility for leprosy patients set up by Baba Amte in Chandrapur district’s Warora tehsil has been declared a containment zone.
The district administration took this decision as the coronavirus cases have been increased in the last one week. According to reports, 251 ashram inmates, among the 1,317 tested, were coronavirus positive. All the patients are going under the treatment.
As the majority of Anandwan inmates being senior citizens with comorbidities, the administration has established a special COVID-care centre on the ashram premises. There are presently about 1,500 inmates at the ashram.
Earlier this month, a special auxiliary RT-PCR testing centre was set up in Anandwan given the presence of a highly vulnerable population there. Around 100 to 150 people in Anandwan were being tested every day since March first week. Soon, it turned out that a good number of people among the inmates were positive and the entire Anandwan was sealed and declared a containment zone, said, officials.
The official also stated that those found negative are being taken in special buses to Warora sub-district hospital for vaccination and 130 inmates have been given the first dose of vaccine.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 cases are also increasing sharply in Nagpur. As many as 1,710 new cases were detected on Wednesday, March 10, while eight people died of the deadly virus in the last 24 hours in the district, reports suggested.
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