Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): The first batch of 78 persons completed their quarantine period today at Hotel Heemal in Srinagar and were allowed to go home, the Jammu and Kashmir administration said.
Additional Deputy Commissioner and In-charge Quarantine Centers, Srinagar, Syed Hanief Balki said that these people have completed their 14-day quarantine period and are in good health.
These people had returned from Leh and were put under quarantine in Srinagar to complete the mandatory quarantine period.
Those who were allowed to go home belong to various parts of Kashmir and had come from Leh before being put under this facility in Srinagar.
“These people are being provided with transport to home. They will be ferried in our SRTC buses so that they face no inconvenience in reaching home,” Balki said.
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 2000 persons returning from outside countries so far have been accommodated in these facilities.
