Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday warned to take strict action against those, who will hide their travel history, while entering valley at Srinagar Airport.
According to CNS, the Divisional Administration, in the wake of reports that some students, returning from Bangladesh on Thursday protested and refused to quarantine them, on arriving at Srinagar Airport and also produced fake Identity Cards, to evade the laid down procedures for travelers arriving from foreign countries has taken the decision to take strict action against the violators of set rules.
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir P. K Pole was quoted to have warned that administration will not tolerate any violations of the procedures.
However, he accepted that fresh arriving students to valley from foreign countries are now cooperating with authorities to undergo the norms, set in the wake of coronavirus threat.
Addressing the concern of keeping the students, who arrived from abroad in groups, he said that they have been kept in isolation and not in quarantine, explaining the difference between the two.
Meanwhile Dr. Manzoor Qureshi, Surveillance Officer in Directorate of Health Kashmir told CNS that all the places, where these students have been accommodated, where sensitized before shifting and every day a team of doctors is conducting their regular medical checkups..
“This is good for their own, as well as their families, who they will be joining, after completing the isolation period and cleared to leave the isolation centers”, Qureshi said.
He requested students as well as their parents to cooperate with the authorities, in the efforts of the government to deal with the Coronavirus threat. (CNS)
