Kota: Bundi administration on its toes as over 200 home guards return from Kumbh | Jaipur News

KOTA: The Bundi district administration went into a tizzy on Saturday morning after reports surfaced about the return of at least 200 home guards, who were on duty at Kumbh fair in Haridwar, to their homes in various areas of the district.
With no preparedness for mass screening and sampling, the medical and health department swung into action for their preliminary screening.
The home guards from the district, who were sent on duty to Kumbh fair in Haridwar from April 6 to 16, started returning to their homes in Hindoli, Nainwa, Lakheri, Keshoraipatan and Bundi areas of the district on Saturday morning. With their arrival in Bundi, arrangement for screening and sampling were made hurriedly, said a source.
Deputy commandant, home guard, Bundi Ravinder Singh, said, medical teams in Bundi city, Talera, Lakheri, Nainwa and Hindoli conducted screening and sampling before the home guards moved to their respective homes. However, none of them has been detected with Covid symptoms, he added.
The home guards had already undergone medical examination in Haridwar before they boarded bus for their home towns on Friday evening, he further said.
In the Covid test conducted in Haridwar, one home guard from the district had tested Covid positive and he was quarantined there, the deputy commandant said.
“We have performed duty in sound health in Kumbh and further underwent medical examination before we left on Friday evening and now I am in queue for the same Covid examination at Bundi district centre,” said home guard Rajendra Singh Chouhan, who returned to Bundi on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, Bundi CMHO Mahendra Tripathy said the department was alert and the medical teams at the district headquarters as well as in other blocks of the district conducted screening as well as sampling of around 200 home guards, who had returned from Haridwar. “None of the home guards was found infected in the screening and report of their sampling was likely to be received on Sunday, however, they have been asked to undergo home quarantine till the receipt of their reports, he said.