Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): 489 more persons completed their quarantined period here today and were allowed to go home.
They were kept at different hotels and other government buildings and had tested negative. Some of them were placed at Hotel Abbas, Hotel Nehru and SAMCI here.
Those who were allowed to return to their homes hail from different districts of Kashmir, though a majority of them are from Srinagar.
Those belonging to different districts of Kashmir are being sent to their respective places in SRTC busses arranged by the Srinagar administration.
Meanwhile, those from Srinagar were all ferried home or entrusted to their families.
“We are thankful to administration for providing us good facilities. We are happy we are returning home,” said a group of students who had returned from Bangladesh and were allowed to go home today.
They also appealed to people to cooperate with the administration and do not hide their travel histories. “We need to cooperate then only we can fight COVID19,” they said.
Till yesterday, 638 persons were discharged after successfully completing their mandatory 14-day quarantine period.
There are around 1900 persons who had been put under administrative quarantine in Srinagar after their return, mostly from overseas.
Shifting of overseas-return persons into quarantine facilities was part of Srinagar administration’s elaborate preventive measures put in place to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease after March 18 when the first positive case was reported in the district.
