shillong the largest corona care centre and quarantine facility in meghalaya was recently inaugurated at iim shillong with a total capacity of holding 258 patients at a highlevel review meeting between the state government and opposition leaders held here on thursday it was decided that the facility will be used for accommodating asymptomatic individuals and those with mild symptomschief secretary ms rao said that meghalaya now has 3227 beds available for treatment of covid19 patientsadequate stock of health equipment is now available the state has 153213 ppes 630300 threeply masks 148678 n95 masks and 20 ventilators he saidthe meeting was chaired by speaker metbah lyngdoh and attended by chief minister conrad sangma deputy chief minister prestone tynsong health minister al hek home minister l rymbui opposition leader mukul sangma and other legislators besides senior officials of various departmentsa total of 3978 stranded individuals have been brought back to the state via five entry points the chief secretary informed adding that separate protocols for entry of individuals coming in from other northeastern states and those from other states have been put in placeall incoming individuals will have to be under home quarantine along with their families for a period of 14 days the government has made arrangements for support and followup treatment for individuals and families under quarantine rao informed adding that a total of 1861 free provision kits were distributed till may 13 for all individuals under mandatory home quarantinebesides this 2653 home visits were made for enforcing quarantine and a separate web link on the meghalaya government portal was created to register stranded citizens outside northeast so far over 9400 individuals have registered and 7100 are expected to return he addedthe government and the opposition jointly urged the citizens to accept the returning individuals and not stigmatize them or their families adding that over the course of the coming days many more individuals would return to the stateso far meghalaya has registered 13 covid19 positive cases of which one died 11 recovered and one remains under treatment