Tripura peaceful on Day 3 of lockdown

AGARTALA: The third day of the 21-day nationwide lockdown passed off peacefully in Tripura with people largely staying at home, barring at a few commercial points.
There were, however, some reports of police action in some market areas to disperse crowds.
While 5.86 lakh poor families are receiving free ration for 15 days, children enrolled in various anganwadi centres and those entitled to mid-day meals, were provided with food at the doorstep.
The government from Friday started serving cooked food among the urban poor across all 20 urban local bodies and will continue the entire stretch of lockdown.
All municipal authorities have distributed packed cooked food items among the homeless, destitute, labourers, rickshaw pullers and daily wagers. The members of the women self help groups were mobilised for cooking and packaging food.
Secretary, health department, Dr Debashis Basu, said nobody has tested positive for Covid-19 so far with 69 people having tested and 4,200 people being kept under watch. Total 2,500 people have been qua rantined so far.
"We have no dearth of medical equipment and testing kits but are running short of masks, sanitizers and personal protective gear. A consignment was brought today by our helicopter from Kolkata, but even that was not enough meet the requirements," he said, adding that an expert team of doctors to treat coronavirus patients was constituted, which is connected with the central-level expert group.
Two working groups with senior state officers have been set up to address the problems of people from Tripura who are stranded outside and those from outside the state, who are stuck here.
Chief secretary Manoj Kumar formed a three-member committee headed by principal secretary (transport) L H Darlong and secretary (planning and coordination) Apurba Roy and DIGP (crime) R Gopal Rao as members to sort out the issue of people of Tripura who have been stranded outside and outsiders stranded in the state.