Eden Gardens' COVID-19 facility set to be operational soon, says CAB.
In a bid to combat the ongoing Coronavirus crisis in West Bengal, the quarantine facility has set up for the frontline COVID-19 warriors of Kolkata Police at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) President Avishek Dalmiya has on Monday (July 27) confirmed that the quarantine facilities for the police personnel were made ready at the Eden Gardens’ five galleries (E, F, G and H blocks) following a recent request from Kolkata Police authorities for the same.
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It is being said that Eden Gardens’ COVID-19 quarantine center – where beds, cots, and fans have set up in a place with the mandatory gap of six feet under the galleries of blocks E and F, is likely to be operative from Tuesday (July 28) or by the end of this week.
More beds will be added to the galleries under the blocks G and H over the next few days while block J might be used if more space is required at the stadium in Kolkata.
Mr. Dalmiya stated in an official Twitter post on Monday: “The Police Authorities have set up quarantine facilities under galleries of E and F Blocks at present. The facility is expected to be operational soon. We have also allowed them to use our Mini Hospital Area in F Block which would be used by Doctors who would be monitoring those in quarantine.”
Noteworthy, the groundsmen and other staff of Eden Gardens and CAB would be shifted to the dormitories and other safer spaces in B, C, K, and L blocks inside the stadium, away from the COVID-19 quarantine center set up by the Kolkata Police here.