Srinagar March 20 (KINS): Around 300 people who arrived Srinagar from various parts of the world on Friday have been quarantined.Sources said among these, most are students who returned from Bangladesh and other countries.
“No one is being left without screening or quarantined. Even a top official’s niece who returned on Friday is also quarantined,” sources said.
Sources said the top official is also dealing with arranging accomodation and other facilities for the quarantine.
Sources however said government was facing short of space to accommodate more people, who are arriving in coming days.
“Government is looking for accommodation where more people could be quarantined,” sources said.
Meanwhile a top official said government was taking all measures to prevent spread of virus.
“We can’t compromise with the health of people,” he told Kashmir Indepth News Service.
Meanwhile, people, who arrived from Ladakh on Thursday, complained of poor facilities at quarantine centre here in the outskirts of Srinagar city.
On Thursday around 80 people arrived Srinagar Airport from Ladkah and were quarantined in the different locations in the outskirts of Srinagar city.
“We were boarded in buses and kept in an isolation center at Panthachowk. But we have no facilities here. Water is contaminated. We heard that the hotel was closed for months together. It is strange that we have been put here when the condition of this hotel was not good,” Mudasir Ahmad (name changed) told Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) over phone.
“Hot water was not available at this isolation centre. The primary requirement to prevent and manage the virus is to have access to hot water. But that is not available here,” they claimed.
“The authorities want us to stay sanitized and this is what they give us. This way authorities cannot contain coronavirus only will get more cases,” they said.
They said that though the Additional DC and DSP police visited there but nothing changed in this quarantine center.
It is to mention here that advisories released by the Health Ministry have repeatedly stressed on the importance of personal hygiene to prevent the spread of the virus.(KINS)
