Covid testing intensified in Govt. Offices at Shopian

Shopian: District Administration Shopian has decided to intensify testing for COVID-19 in all the Government offices in the district.
In this regard, all Government employees and staff of business establishments will be tested for COVID-19 in the next 10 days, starting from Tuesday and the schedule for testing has also been formulated.
Meanwhile today the COVID-19 testing of employees was started from the office of District Development Commissioner and the sample collection was started with the nodal officer for COVID-19.
The District heads of all departments have been directed to inform the staff about the schedule date and time and ensure that all the employees remain present and no leave or exemption would be allowed for anybody as per the orders issued by District Development Commissioner, Choudhary Mohammad Yasin,.
Similarly, massive testing is also being conducted in containment zones to contain the COVID-19 infection.
District administration has appealed to the employees and residents of containment zones to extend full cooperation during the COVID-19 testing, failing which strict action shall be taken against the erring.
Meanwhile, the district administration has allowed asymptomatic covid patients for home isolation as per the Government’s new SOPs.