Koraput: The district administration on Monday declared Podagarh panchayat and three km area in its periphery as containment zone after a 22-year-old health worker of Dasmantapur block tested positive for COVID-19.
Besides, the administration also declared 7 km area around the Podagarh panchayat as buffer zone.
Briefing the mediapersons here, Koraput collector Madhusudan Mishra said that the contact tracing of the patient was underway.
The health worker had returned to Koraput from Kolkata on April 14 to join nursing duty. He was not allowed to join duty and was kept in a government quarantine facility for 14 days because of his travel history.
“The health worker had no symptom of COVID-19,” the collector added.
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