MHA facilitates movement of people stranded due to lockdown
As a result of lockdown restrictions to fight COVID-19, migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other persons are stranded at different places in the country. Now, the Centre has permitted the movement of these stranded persons by road. They would be allowed to move between one State/ UT to another State/ UT, after the concerned states consult each other and mutually agree to.
It has also been impressed upon that on arrival at their destination, such person(s) would be assessed by the local health authorities, and kept in home quarantine, unless the assessment requires keeping the person in institutional quarantine. They would be kept under watch with periodic health check-ups.
For this purpose, States/UTs have been requested to encourage such persons to use Aarogya Setu app through which their health status can be monitored and tracked.
The Center said that the state should form a nodal agency for their withdrawal. After screening, people who do not have symptoms of corona will be allowed to go to their state. Along with this it was also said that buses carrying people should also be sanitized. Those who go to their home area should be kept in quarantine first. With this kind of conditions, permission is granted.
