Five migrant labourers walked all the way from Nagaland and reached Jorhat on Wednesday. They covered nearly 25km on foot and crossed the border at Mariani without the knowledge of the authorities and reached the Lohpoia tea estate on the western outskirts of the district. The manager-in-charge of Lohpoia tea estate, Makhan Sharma, said the team had conducted medical tests of the five persons who had been put up at an abandoned office of the estate. Additional deputy commissioner Bipul Das affirmed that the workers had been quarantined at the estate itself. A Jorhat district official said many migrant labourers who had come from Nagaland were kept in quarantine facilities at Titabor.

Source: The Telegraph May 08, 2020 00:33 UTC