Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): 221 more persons completed their quarantine period here today and were allowed to go home, the Jammu and Kashmir administration said.
This comes a day after the first batch of 78 persons completed a 14-day quarantine period at hotel Heemal in Srinagar.
Additional Deputy Commissioner and In-charge Quarantine Centers, Srinagar, Syed Hanief Balki said that 221 persons were sent back to their respective homes in SRTC buses after completing 14-day mandatory quarantine period.
The tests sample of these people came negative and now they have been asked to quarantine themselves in their respective homes for the next period as a precautionary measure.
These have arrived in Srinagar from different parts of India and abroad. These people included females and children as well, Balki said.
One of the persons who completed his quarantine period and was heading home thanked the administration for the facilities. “We were properly looked after; food and lodging too were good. We appeal everyone to cooperate with the government to stop the spread of coronavirus,” the person told NVI on condition of anonymity.
Among these 221 persons, a mother holding her baby was also seen coming out of one of the quarantine centers in Srinagar.
As a precautionary measure to limit the spread of coronavirus, hundreds of travelers, including students, who arrived in Jammu and Kashmir from other countries, primarily from Bangladesh, were isolated soon upon their arrival and then shifted to the quarantine facilities.
More than 90 quarantine facilities have been identified and established in Srinagar. More than 2000 persons returning from outside countries so far have been accommodated in these facilities.
