Villagers in Erode district bar entry for all outsiders
Senthil.Kumaran@timesgroup.com
Erode:25.05.2021
Residents have closed the entry to Sathumugai and Chenni Moopanpudur villages near Sathyamangalam to remain free of Covid-19. It isn’t easy for even the local residents returning from other places to enter in. They will be first screened for symptoms of infection.
S Kishore, a resident of Sathumuga, said they had taken the measures in consultation with the village heads in view of the steady rise in the daily caseload in the district.
Both the villages house 300-400 families each and according to residents they haven’t reported any Covid-19 cases so far. “We are maintaining the government’s guidelines, including social distancing, very strictly. Health department officials had conducted fever camps. They did not find any positive cases,” Kishore said.
The residents have closed the entry to the villages with wood and bamboo logs. In addition, they take turns to guard the entries to prevent outsiders from sneaking in. “We don’t even allow others to pass through our village,” said T Muthuramalingam, a resident of Chenni Moopanpudur. Local residents returning from other states and districts would be allowed in only with an RT-PCR negative certificate. “
NO ENTRY: A notice outside a village near Salem asking outsiders not to step ahead
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