‘Students having negative test certificate to stay in home quarantine, others to be kept in mandatory Govt quarantine facility’
Abid Bashir
Srinagar, Apr 14: The first batch of 52 students who were airlifted from Iran and were put under quarantine in an army facility at Jaisalmeer, Rajasthan, are expected to arrive in Srinagar today, officials said.
They said first batch of students, who have completed their mandatory quarantine after remaining in an army facility at Rajasthan are being brought to Srinagar in batches. “A first batch of 52 students will reach Srinagar today later in the day. The process will continue till all students are brought back in batches,” the official told KNO.
At least 276 students from Kashmir, who were studying in Iran, and were evacuated in the wake of outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic were kept in quarantine facility at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Most of these students were pursuing MBBS and other courses in Iran, one of the worst hit countries of COVID-19.
According to an official students having certificate of being negative for COVID-19 with them, will be allowed to stay in home quarantine and those who won’t be having it, will have to stay in government quarantine facility in Srinagar.
It may be recalled that the demand for evacuation of Kashmiri children studying in Iran had led to Union Minister for External Affairs Minister S Jaishanker to fly to Srinagar to meet parents of children on March 9 at SKICC, Srinagar. The External Minister had assured the parents that their children would be evacuated from Iran, one of the worst-hit countries by COVID-19 across the globe, where hundreds have died so far.
