SHILLONG: In the wake of fake news being circulated in social media projecting the entire Keating Road locality as COVID-19 hotspot, the Keating Road Welfare Organisation (KRWO) has allayed fears of the people.
The president of the organisation, JL Das informed on Wednesday that all the coronavirus- infected patients of Keating Road belong to one family only that had gone to Patna in January this year before lockdown to attend marriage of a family member and all of them returned to Shillong after lockdown on July 2 and 3.
Das clarified that all the positive patients have been shifted to Shillong Civil Hospital & IIM Umsawli campus for treatment.
“There are no COVID-19 patients currently staying in the ( buildings of the affected family”, he said.
According to Das, other positive cases have not been detected in the locality than the particular family.
“Keating Road and its bye lanes besides the shops with odd-even numbers are open”, he said.
The KRWO has urged the citizens to cooperate with the administration in containing the COVID-19 in the city and not to believe in rumours as far as the situation in Keating Road is concerned.