COVID-19 Scare: Hindol NAC Office In Odisha’s Dhenkanal Declared As Containment Zone

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Dhenkanal: Hindol NAC office has been declared a containment zone after the detection of a COVID-19 positive case.

Collector Bhumesh Chandra Behera on Monday informed that the office has been sealed for 72 hours (7 am of August 17 to 7 am of August 20) for contact tracing.

Contacts of the confirmed and suspected cases will be listed, tracked and kept under surveillance at home for 14 days.

The area will be under active surveillance, which will start from August 17 and completed by August 18.

The adjoining areas, however, have not been declared as buffer zones, he added.