Tuensang District Task Force for COVID 19 held a meeting at DC’s conference hall Tuensang on 10th May 2021. DC and Chairman DTF Tuensang, Kumar IAS chaired the meeting.

DC and Chairman DTF updated on the Tuensang Town Baptist Churches Union's resolution on restriction of any form of mass gathering within the town. The DC also requested the other communities to come up with the same resolution to control and contain the spread of the disease. Ramnikant informed that he will write to all the village councils of the District to check the traffic and movements of villagers to the town to control the spread of virus to the rural areas.

The house decided to monitor the entry of returnees from other districts for which data of the returnees will be collected at the check gate and the medical and all ward union shall help to monitor the same. It also considered the improvised SOP by allowing only one member of the families to go out for basic activities by issuing card system of permit for some stipulated time to avoid the unnecessary congestion of public in the town.

The members also decided to close town the playground within the town to avoid the spread of the virus in the town. It was also discussed to earmarked the Government Polytechnic Setam as a make shift hospital in case of a rise in COVID cases and also Sao Chang Government College hostels for same. On vaccination, the house decided to prioritize the service providers employees.

The Tuensang district call center to guide the COVID related issues has been activated, the numbers are 03861220171 and 8787655927.

                                                                        (Thungti Chang, IA Tuensang)