A COVID-19 preventive health checkpoint to screen the travellers is reopened in the entrance gates of Sagaing district beginning from 5 July.
The truck drivers and their helpers are allowed to enter the Sagaing district only if they could show a certificate of COVID-19 clearance from its relevant regions. The authorities from the Sagaing district COVID-19 Control and Emergency Response Committee are conducting the COVID-19 tests on the truck drivers and their followers, heading to other regions from the Sagaing region at Sagaing’s 700th Ground and will issue the COVID-19 clearance certificate.
“The committee prohibited the table service at the shops beginning from 5 July to 19 July. The shops are allowed only the takeaway service. The committee has been controlling the region because it is connected with stay home townships. All the truck drivers have to be detected COVID-19 test. Then, the committee will issue the 72-hour COVID-19 clearance certificate. The truck drivers and their followers are allowed to enter the Sagaing region only if they could provide the COVID-19 clearance certificate. The trucks drivers en route to other regions from Sagaing are also detected COVID-19 test and they are issued with the clearance certificate,” said an official from COVID-19 committee.
“The COVID-19 tests will be conducted at the old stadium starting from 5 July. Then, we are arranging to reopen the COVID-19 preventive health checkpoint in every township of the entrance gate. But, the travellers who could provide the clearance certificates are allowed to enter the township,” he added.
In order to control the spreading of COVID-19 infection in the Sagaing region, all the visitors who will come from the stayhome townships must stay for quarantine.
— Aye Maung/GNLM