TU oppose Quarantine facility in their campus

TU oppose Quarantine facility in their campus

The Tezpur University fraternity is angry as the district authorities are opening up a quarantine facility for the migrant labourers of the North bank districts that will start coming in from next week in batches.

The University fraternity has expressed strong resentmentover Sonitpur district administration's move to requisition the varsity campusfor facilitating it as an institutional quarantine centre for the peoplestranded outside the State who are coming back to their native place.

In order to contain the spread of COVID-19 as per Statehealth department's directions, the district administration has set up a zonalscreening venue at Tezpur Central University, Napaam to screen all peoplebelonging to Udalguri, Sonitpur, Biswanath, Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts whowill be returning from outside the State.

The Community Hall along with the playground of TezpurUniversity is being used for screening of passengers, while the ring road aroundthe playground will be used for parking of vehicles. The Kendriya Vidyalayainside the campus will be used for setting up an institutional quarantinefacility to accommodate around 250 persons.

Moreover, it is learnt that the Bijit Saikia Indoor Stadiumand Polo Field in the town will also be used to set up a 100-bed institutionalquarantine centre. Two quarantine facilities are already operational inSirajuli and Kusumtola model hospitals in the district with a combined strengthof around 100 beds.

It may be noted that as the government has initiatedmeasures to bring back people of Assam stranded outside the State, Tezpur,Kokrajhar, Guwahati, Silchar and Jorhat have been selected to set up zone-wisescreening centres.

Mandatory registration, screening and quarantine for allpeople will be carried out in these centres in a bid to reduce the possibilityof community transmission from probable COVID-19 positive patients. People whotest negative after 14 days of compulsory quarantine will be allowed to gohome.

District administration sources revealed that the people,who do not want to avail institutional quarantine will be able to book hotelsat their own expense and choose to quarantine themselves at such hotels asidentified by the authorities.

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