Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 3: As more than 400 people today completed their administrative quarantine here, around 800 people undergoing quarantine will be released by Monday.
As per the numbers, as many as 489 people, mostly students from Bangladesh and other countries, were today allowed to go home after they completed their 14-day quarantine in different facilities that were set up by the administration.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Srinagar Sayed Hanief Balkhi told Excelsior that all were asymptomatic and in good health. “They were put into quarantine after they arrived at Srinagar airport from different countries,” he said.
He said that those who were allowed to go home today were kept in around 20 quarantine facilities. Those released belonged to various districts of the Valley and were dropped home as the transport facility was made available to them by the administration.
While giving out details regarding about the number of people who are still undergoing the mandatory quarantine and will be released in the days to come, he said that around 800 hundred people are still with us-undergoing quarantine and will complete the same in next few days.
“300 people will complete their quarantine tomorrow (Saturday) and will be released; 500 more will be allowed to go home by Monday as they will also complete the quarantine period,” Balkhi said.
It is pertinent to mention here that more than 1100 people have so far completed their quarantine period and were sent home, while more 800 people are also set to be sent home in coming days-making the number of people who have successfully completed their quarantine to around 1900.
The district administration is almost every day sending people home as they complete quarantine. The process started when 78 people who had returned from Leh were released from Hotel Hemaal followed by 221 and 324 people, mostly medical students, kept in different facilities in and around Srinagar who were also sent home.
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