CPI urges

IMPHAL, May 9: Commu-nist Party of India, Manipur State Council (CPI-MSC) has appealed to the State Government and COVID-19 Monitoring Committee to relax certain activities from the purview of the lockdown and at the same time deploy more health professionals at Mao Gate to strengthen screening of people entering the State.
A press release signed by secretary CPI-MSC L Sotinkumar also appealed to the State Government to send non-locals who entered the State without proper documents to their respective States.
Reminding that no vaccine has been developed to treat COVID-19 so far, Sotinkumar said that collective effort is required to ensure that green zone status of Manipur remains intact.
After over a month of bringing almost all normal activities to a screeching halt, people, specially from poor background and working classes breathed a sigh of relief on May 3 when the State Government partially relaxed the lockdown but as the market-goers failed to adhere to the physical distancing norm and considering the overcrowding in public places, the Government lifted the relaxation, he continued.
Saying that the Government lifted the relaxation as overcrowding in market places might prove catastrophic as numbers of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in other North East States, Sotinkumar said that the public need to reflect why the lockdown was intensified again on May 5.