Security beefed up in Krishnapatnam
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An eerie calm prevailed at Krishnapatnam in SPSR Nellore district a day after a stampede attributable to tens of hundreds of people that thronged the village for an ayurvedic preparation that reportedly claimed to supply a remedy for COVID-19.
Police tightened safety in Krishnapatnam and despatched out folks tenting in and across the village ready to get not less than just a few packets of the preparation by B. Anandaiah regardless of suspension of its distribution pending approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR).
Barricades have been erected at a number of locations on the arterial Chennai-Kolkata freeway to forestall folks from coming to the village defying the prohibitory orders in power through the partial curfew imposed by the State authorities to fight COVID.
“’The situation is well under control,” stated Nellore Rural Deputy Superintendent of Police Y. Harinath Reddy.
Meanwhile, a affected person named Kottaiah from Tinnelapudi village, close to Kota, who had reportedly taken the attention drops from the ayurvedic practioner was rushed in a important situation to a delegated COVID-19 hospital right here.
Appeal
Joint Collector M.N. Harendhira Prasad, who accompanied a workforce of the Indian Council of Medical Research which rushed to the village on the behest of Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu for a scientific research, appealed to the folks to not rush to the village because the distribution of the natural preparation had been suspended by the district administration. They ought to await the findings of the ICMR which could take about one week to 10 days, he stated.
An AYUSH workforce headed by its Commissioner Col. V. Ramulu collected samples of the preparation for research after Mr. Anandaiah gave an indication of the preparation made by him.
Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Bhushan clarified that Mr. Anandaiah was solely supplied safety and had not been taken into custody and as reported in a bit of the media. No case has been registered for COVID security norms violation, he stated.
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