NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, APRIL 2
When there were demands to test those who had participated in the Mahashivarathri congregation recently held at Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev-run Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore, the management has clarified that there are no COVID-19 positivIe cases among the inmates.
In a release issued by the Isha Yoga Centre, the management clarified that it receives several international visitors but the Centre had swiftly taken preventive measures even before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as pandemic and much before the central and state governments announced the lockdown and imposed travel ban.
The Centre requested the visitors from China, Japan, Singapore and other COVID19-affected countries, not to visit as on now as a precautionary measure both for travellers as well as the larger community.
Even people who had been to the COVID-19-affected countries, including transits and airport layovers, were requested not to visit the Yoga Centre.
Isha has been following mandatory screening and physical distancing protocols since the outbreak of coronavirus. Other foreign nationals who had visited the Centre were requested to observe the mandatory 28-day quarantine.
Residents and volunteers who are used to Isha’s rigorous adherence to health and hygiene protocols even in normal times are now undergoing mandatory screening every two days. The protocols also apply to security, housekeeping and other ground staff who reside at the Yoga Centre. Hand sanitizers have been made available at several locations on the premises.
State health officials who have been visiting the Yoga Centre to conduct screenings and checks since February have found no COVID-19 positive cases, the management clarified.
Recently, Isha has come forward to offer its premises to the state government to help contain the spreading of coronavirus.
The Yoga Centre is not only well equipped to comply with all screening protocols but has had a headstart in establishing physical distancing and quarantine rules, it further clarified.
