Hunsur: With hundreds of labourers travelling in jeeps and other vehicles from Hanagodu region in Hunsur for work in Coffee estates in Kodagu and neighbouring Kerala, Hunsur Taluk Administration has taken measures to screen all of them for COVID-19.
On the first day of the Lockdown yesterday, Dr. Girish of Doddahejjur Primary Health Centre near Veeranahosahalli, coming under Nagarahole National Park, where a check-post has been set up, screened about 500 workers who had come in 42 jeeps, most of whom are from tribal hamlets and recorded their health status, following which some of the workers were allowed to leave for their workplace in Kodagu and Kerala border districts under the supervision of the Forest Department. Out of the 500 workers who underwent screening, those permitted were allowed to travel in 22 jeeps to estates in Kerala and Kodagu, while the rest who were rejected on health grounds, were sent back to their villages in 20 jeeps, upon the order of the Tahsildar.
