KOZHIKODE:
Kozhikode district
administration with the help of the health department and various local self-government bodies in Kozhikode district has set up 565 Covid-19 care centres to keep the Nonresident Keralites (
NRKs
) arriving from oversees countries under
quarantine
.
The centres are set up across the district with the help of respective local self-government bodies. Out of 66 NRKs arrived in Kozhikode on May 7, 40 of them kept under home quarantine and remaining 26 under institutional quarantine. A total of 19 passengers arrived from
Riyad
on May 8. Out of this, 16 of them includes expecting mothers and children below 10 years send for home quarantine and three kept under government
Covid Care
Centres.
The health department has ensured the services of doctors and health staff at the Covid care centres in case any emergency situation arises. The food is supplied by the volunteers assigned on duty at the centres. DMO
Dr V Jayashree
informed that the department has put in place all the arrangements at the Covid care centres to meet any needs of NRKs kept under institutional and home quarantine.
Sreedevi is senior correspondent with the Times of India in Kozhi...
Read MoreSreedevi is senior correspondent with the Times of India in Kozhikode. She is handling the civic issue beat for the past four years. She was with The New Indian Express earlier.
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