Amid a surge in COVID cases in the coal belt region, the government-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) intensified testing by providing adequate number of rapid testing kits in SCCL’s main hospital and area hospitals across the region.
Sources said that the coal belt region spanning six districts recorded a little over 2,000 COVID cases in the past fortnight. These included SCCL employees like coal workers, several of their family members and outsourced workers, sources added.
To stem the spread of the coronavirus infections, the SCCL authorities have instructed the General Managers of all the 11 Areas to step up testing and also spraying of the disinfectant solution in the coal mines, various departments and the residential colonies in the coal belt region.
