State Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro on Friday directed all the employees of the legislature to remain in home quarantine following a fact coming to the fore that a person who tested positive for COVID-19 in the State capital on Thursday had come in contact with an official of the Assembly.
“As the third COVID-19 case in Odisha has a contact history with a staff of the Assembly, all the officials need to put themselves in home quarantine and the entire building will be disinfected to prevent spread of the deadly virus,” said Patro.
In another precautionary measure, the Speaker decided to resume the Assembly session at the Convention Hall of Lok Seva Bhawan (Secretariat) instead of the Assembly building on March 30. He asked the MLAs to sit maintaining a distance of up to two meters.
Patro appealed to the political parties to send only 30 per cent of their MLAs to the House session. However, all MLAs and Ministers would be exempted from the lockdown restrictions during the session.
“The collectors and SPs of all the districts have been asked not to stop the MLAs on roads to attend the House,” he said.
