Bhubaneswar: About 84,000 people residing in other states and abroad have returned to Odisha since February following the coronavirus outbreak.
Informing the media here on Thursday, chief spokesperson on COVID-19 Subroto Bagchi said that as a precautionary measure, the state government has arranged 7276 beds at the panchayat level to keep these people in isolation for 14 days.
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“As some people have come from the neighbouring states and countries that have been affected by the coronavirus, there is a possibility that some of them might have contracted COVID-19. Taking this into consideration, the state government has taken all possible measures to keep these people under observation before allowing them to return to their homes, Bagchi said.
