Srinagar March 20: 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 accommodation and other facilities for the quarantine.
Sources, however, said the government was facing short of space to accommodate more people, who are arriving in the coming days.
“Government is looking for accommodation where more people could be quarantined,” sources said.
Meanwhile, a top official said the government was taking all measures to prevent the spread of the 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 the quarantine center here on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
On Thursday around 80 people arrived at Srinagar Airport from Ladakh 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 reported news agency KINS.
“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 nothing changed in this quarantine center.
It is to mention here that advisories released by the Health Ministry have repeatedly stressed the importance of personal hygiene to prevent the spread of the virus reported KINS.
