Pampore: Nearly 147 people in Pampore, who hid their travel history to Coronavirus affected countries, have been identified and shifted to quarantine facilities, officials said on Friday.
They told Kashmir Reader that surveillance teams, which have been constituted for tracing people with a travel history and their contacts, visited different areas of Pampore including Kakapora and Awantipora to trace the people.
They added that many persons with travel history to Coronavirus affected foreign counties like Bangladesh, South Africa, Dubai and Saudi Arabia were traced and shifted to quarantine centres at IUST Awantipora, Kong posh Hospital and Darul Uloom Shahi Hamdan Pampore.
“105 persons were moved to quarantine at IUST Awantipora, 22 to Kong posh and 20 to Darul Uloom Shahi Hamadan in Pampore,” said Medical Officer SDH Pampore, Dr Mohammad Ashraf.
He told Kashmir Reader that people with travel history to other states were asked to go for home quarantine.
He said that many people had concealed their travel history to other countries and “concerned residents informed us that they were staying at home”.
“These persons were identified and sent to quarantine,” he said.
“We have launched a crackdown against people who are hiding their travel history to Coronavirus hit countries,” said Tehsildar Pampore, Ishtiyaq Mohi ud Din, adding that all such persons who returned from other countries or other states of India are being identified and put in quarantine facilities.
“There is an apprehension that if anyone among them turns out to be positive, then we have to put around 600 people in quarantine – and to avoid that situation, we are proactively tracing these people,” he said, adding that people are requested to inform them about any person who had travel history.

BILAL HABIB