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Tests on 50 plague suspects negative

By Staff Correspondent
The number of persons under examination on suspicion of carrying the plague germ has shot up to 50 from five Just three days ago. but none has so far been found plague-positive, according to a high government official.
The Additional Director General of Health Services. Dr A K Shamsuddin Siddiqui, told a stunned press conference in the capital yesterday that 50 people were being tested in isolated wards at different district hospitals and thana health clinics.
The figure contradicted an earlier government announcement that only five people had been hospitalised for observation in Dhaka and In Chapainawabganj districts.
Speaking at the press conference. the Additional DG said clinical tests on those hospi-
talised had also proved negative.
Outlining different government steps, Dr Siddiqui appealed to the people not to panic and assured that adequate preventive measures have been taken to ward off the scourge from entering the country.
He said about 50 lakh tetracycline capsules were now stored in government warehouses while the government was ready to manufacture in crores, if necessary.
The Additional DG said that 500 tonnes of DDT were stored in godowns a part of which has already been sent to the bordering areas.
Special trains would be sent to the Darshana border In Kushtla to pick up the Bangladeshi students who intend to
return home" from India
Some 75 thousand student* study at different educational institutions In the neighbouring country now shaken by the plague fear following an outbreak of the epidemic in Surat.
Meanwhile, a high-level meeting of the Bangladesh Rifles In Dhaka yesterday decided to step up vigilance along the frontiers to check Infiltration of people from India and make the people aware erf the plague.
Chaired by Director General of the BDR Major General Anwar Hossain, the meeting
was attended by Deputy Director General. Directors. Staff Officers of the Head quarters and Sector Com-manders of Khulna. Kushtia. RaJshahl. Dinajpur and Rang-pur
The Bangladesh Red Cres cent Society, at a meeting In Dhaka yesterday, instructed all its bordering district units to form volunteer squads and chart all-out preventive measures against any possible epidemic
The directive came from an anti plague committee formed by the BDRCS with Its chair man presiding.