Srinagar : Locals from Kashmir who returned back from Goa Wednesday staged a protest and refused to enter into quarantine centre located in Pampore saying that rooms are not only in dilapidated condition but have not been cleaned after these were vacated by Covid-19 infected patients.
Over 1200 locals from Kashmir were brought back to Valley from Indian Southern state Goa. They boarded train in Udhumpur and reached Valley where they have been put in administrative quarantine.
Among these 1200 returnees, over 75 people including females and children were taken to a government building in Pampore. These people refused to enter into rooms after founding them in filthy and dirty condition.
“The rooms we have been directed to occupy were earlier occupied by infected people from Kulgam. Over 18 patients who stayed in these rooms from Kulgam were found positive for Covid-19 infection. These have not been cleaned and everything is in dilapidate condition,” they told news agency KNT.
“We staged a protest demanding that we should be quarantined at any place Srinagar which should be spick and span,” they said and alleged that police was called to force them to enter into building.
They appealed authorities to get them quarantined at a better place. (KNT)
