Srinagar: On hiding travel histories, a legal punishment to be meted out with fine on international travellers or domestic travellers, having visited outside the country during the last two weeks, said Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Mohammad Aijaz Asad on Thursday.
As the Omicron variant has rattled the nations across the globe, the DC Srinagar has warned of meting out punishment with a fine to the tune of Rs. 20,000 on the ones who hide their international travel histories. He also said the same should be treated with those domestic travellers having international travel histories within the last two weeks but hiding it from authorities’ knowledge.
He also said that for international travellers, a mandatory RT-PCR test would be conducted at Srinagar Airport and quarantined in the administrative quarantine till the results of their RT-PCR.
On positive RT-PCR result, Asad also said that the infected persons would be taken to DRDO hospital in Khanmoh, Srinagar. Whereas the ones with negative results would be either home quarantined or quarantined in hotels in case of tourists, he said.
Regarding the people’s complacency towards covid19 appropriate behaviour, Asad stressed the covid virus’s deceiving character and said that it is a cheater virus, which comes back after people thought it had vanished.