Arrivals continue to haggle over paid quarantine

People arriving from other states in Dehradun continued to argue with the district administration officials over paid quarantine on Tuesday. This was stated by Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Doiwala, Laxmi Raj Chauhan who is supervising the arrival of passengers in the district by flights. According to him, despite being aware that people arriving here by flights have to stay under paid institutional quarantine for seven days, people are raising ruckus on their arrival stating that they cannot pay to get quarantined in hotels.

He stated that people are well informed about the Uttrakhand Government guidelines through different media and the airlines are also informing the passengers about this at airports. Chauhan informed that the minimum charges of paid quarantine in hotels start from Rs 900 and increase as per the hotel standards. He further informed that there is only seven day quarantine period for people arriving by flights and the remaining seven days will be spent in home quarantine. The SDM also clarified that each person under paid quarantine is also paying for their own meals.

According to district magistrate Ashish Kumar Shrivastav, 307 people were put under institutional quarantine in several hotels of Dehradun after their medical examination while 190 people departed to other states by flights on Tuesday.