Around 5,000 people who were put in administrative quarantine in Srinagar have been discharged in more than a month.
An official said only 165 persons were in the quarantine nowat different centres in the summer capital Srinagar.
“Of these 165 persons, 74 have travel history while 91persons are contacts of COVID19 patients,” said deputy commissioner Srinagar,Shahid Iqbal Choudhary.
As a measure to fight COVID19 spread, Srinagar has 92designated administrative quarantine centres. Presently, only 11 are functionalwhere these 165 people have been kept under medical observation.
“At one time of point, we had 2,700 people under quarantineat these centres at a time. It is good that people have extended theircooperation against the fight coronavirus,” said the DC.
In an effort to encourage people to report travel history,Srinagar administration launched Talaash website and android application lastmonth through which it traced 889 people with travel history.
Additional Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar Syed Hanief Balkhisaid more than 5,000 people were kept under quarantine in Srinagar.
“We have more than 2,502 people under home quarantine andmedical observation,” he said.
Hanief said there were 20 persons in one of the quarantinecentres and all of them have been tested negative for COVID19.
“They will be discharged once they complete necessary 14days quarantine period,” he said.
People under quarantine have been categorized as perprotocol and separated from each other at quarantine homes accordingly.
“The first category is of the people who come into contactwith the positive case. The second category is those people have been testednegative for the virus and the third category is the people who have beentested but final reports are awaited,” said Hanief.
Srinagar has 15 COVID19 red zones including Eidgah,Goripora, Nowshehra, Hawal, Ahmed Nagar, Lal Bazar, Hyderpora, Natipora,Jawahar Nagar, Chattabal, Bemina, Tengpora, Khayam, Nishat, and Lasjan.