The State Highway-65 between Khuntuni and Narsinghpur was blocked at three places, Baselihata, Narsinghpur and Sharadhapur, under Narsinghpur block on Wednesday by hundreds of quarantined persons of the nearby TMCs demanding their swab tests.
Narsinghpur BDO PK Tarai with local PS IIC Lingaraj Lenka and a medical team reached the blockade points and assured the demonstrators to complete the test early, after which the agitators lifted the blockade, which had continued for three to four hours.
The Narsinghpur Medical Officer said that due to kits crunch, the swab tests have not been held so far.
Cuttack CDMO Dr Satyabrata Chhotray said the Government directly supplies the swab test kits to quarantine centres and he is less aware whether the Narsinghpur medical team is not having enough of them. However, in the afternoon some swab samples were taken from these quarantine centres by the medical team, said BDO Tarai.
A similar roadblock agitation had also been held by the persons of the Jemadeipur quarantine centre of Tigiria block two days ago.
