{"id":8380,"date":"2020-07-22T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2020-07-22T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:28:02","slug":"kolkata-nkda-starts-health-monitoring-camps-at-construction-sites-to-screen-covid-19-suspects-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8380","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: NKDA starts health monitoring camps at construction sites to screen Covid-19 suspects | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: Days after an <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/east-west-Metro-construction-site\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_east-west-Metro-construction-site\" frmappuse=\"1\">east west Metro construction site<\/a> became a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/containment-zone\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_containment-zone\" frmappuse=\"1\">containment zone<\/a> after scores of labourers working at the site were tested positive of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid 19<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/New-Town-Kolkata-Development-Authority\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_New-Town-Kolkata-Development-Authority\" frmappuse=\"1\">New Town Kolkata Development Authority<\/a>, in co-ordination with a local NGO has started organising <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/health-check-ups\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_health-check-ups\" frmappuse=\"1\">health check ups<\/a> for labourers working at various construction sites in New Town starting from Wednesday. <br \/>\u201cOn Wednesday, we conducted health and medical check up of 80 odd labourers at a construction site in New Town. Based on the doctors\u2019 feedback and initial screening we have identified five labourers as suspects and are sending their swab samples for testing,\u201d said Debasis Sen. <br \/>Wednesday\u2019s screening was conducted at Rabindra Tirtha where labourers working at an administrative building of NKDA were tested. The authorities have identified five more construction sites belonging to a private bank, an insurance firm, a private hotel, an underconstruction cricket stadium by AIFF and an under construction college campus for St Xaviers University spread across different parts of New Town. <br \/>\u201cThe idea is to screen as many persons possible at the construction sites to identify susceptible cases and test them accordingly to prevent the spread of the disease,\u201d said Samaresh Das, a senior official of the NGO. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/kolkata-nkda-starts-health-monitoring-camps-at-construction-sites-to-screen-covid-19-suspects\/articleshow\/77114020.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Days after an east west Metro construction site became a containment zone after scores of labourers working at the site were tested positive of Covid 19, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority, in co-ordination with a local NGO has started organising health check ups for labourers working at various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1595442484_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}