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Govt announces relaxations in testing, quarantine procedure for special categories of travellers 6/8/2020 12:12:19 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 7: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday announced relaxations in the sampling and quarantine procedure for various categories of travellers including pregnant women, lactating mothers and cancer patients travelling into J&K from outside. An order issued by Chief Secretary J&K B V R Subrahmanyam said that the special categories of travellers will be sampled for COVID-19 testing and sent to 14-days home quarantine. Such travellers will be hospitalised later in case they test positive for the disease. As per earlier instructions, it was mandatory for all travellers to undergo 14-day administrative quarantine before they could be sent home upon testing negative for COVID-19. The special categories of travellers, who have been exempted from the administrative quarantine as per the latest relaxations are: pregnant women in their last trimester having a doctor’s certificate of pregnancy, cancer patients in chemotherapy, chronically ill/ organ transplant/ IVF patients discharged from a hospital after surgery, dialysis patients, lactating mothers of one year, children below 10 years of age travelling without a family member, on duty government of India personnel, returning ambulance drivers of J&K from outside states, returning travellers with a COVID-19 negative certificate from an ICMR approved testing lab not older than two days, business travellers with a confirmed air/rail return ticket booking within 4 days, confirmed hotel booking and a business ID. Those travelling by road should give an undertaking to return within 4 days besides having a confirmed hotel booking and a business ID. As per the government order, the new testing and quarantine procedure will be applicable to all air travellers travelling from a red zone to an orange zone within J&K. The business travellers possessing valid credentials will be allowed to proceed for their business trips only after they are sampled for COVID-19 testing. Moreover, they will be required to maintain a record of people they come in contact with throughout there trip. The order however said that government personnel returning to their duty in J&K were exempted from administrative quarantine of government and will instead proceed to the quarantine centres set up at their respective units or places of posting.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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