All returnees to undergo 14-day quarantine in J&K

Tribune News Service

Jammu, May 23

The UT administration today announced that all air travellers to Jammu and Kashmir would be sampled for Covid and put under quarantine for mandatory 14 days.

The flights are resuming operations from May 25 (Monday) and the government has asked all authorities and travellers for strict observance of all necessary preventive protocols regarding the Covid-19 pandemic during evacuation process of stranded people of J&K.

A government circular said, “All passengers/returnees coming to the UT of J&K, whether by road, rail or air, will have to compulsorily undergo a Covid-19 test following which they will be under administrative quarantine for 14 days, till the test result is negative, in which case they are released for home quarantine, or positive, in which case they are sent to a Covid hospital for recovery and treatment”.