West Bengal govt to set up 200 ‘safe homes’ to curb spread of coronavirus
The West Bengal government will set up 200 ‘safe homes’ to provide temporary shelter to the large number of migrant workers returning to the state to keep a check on the spread of coronavirus, a senior official said on Saturday. The migrant labourers will be provided shelter in the safe homes irrespective of them being asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic if they do not have enough space in their homes to follow the isolation norms, he said. The state health department on being instructed has till Saturday identified 341 blocks to build the homes, he added. Each safe home will have one doctor, a few nurses and healthworkers who will check on the health of its inmates twice a day, the official said. Till Friday there were 5,587 active Covid-19 patients in the state, majority of them migrant workers who have returned from other states, an official of the state health department said.
