JORHAT, May 26 - Altogether, 140 persons who returned from outside Assam and were under institutional or hotel quarantine in Majuli, were on Monday allowed to go home after results of their swab tests were found negative at Jorhat Medical College and Hospital (JMCH).
A Majuli district administration official told this newspaper that as per Covid-19 pandemic Assam protocol, the Majuli District Covid-19 Discharge Board under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner decided to send them home by stamping them and issuing necessary documents.
The official said that all the people who were sent home by vehicles arranged by the district administration have been directed to be under home quarantine in isolation from other family members for the remaining days of the mandatory 14-day quarantine period of a person put under hotel or institutional quarantine.
The official further informed that the administration with support from village-level monitoring committees constituted recently to keep a close watch on home-quarantined persons, will be keeping an eye to ensure that home-quarantined people strictly follow the rules.
�If any home-quarantined person was found violating rules, then the administration will lodge FIR at respective police station and legal action will be initiated accordingly,� the official said.
The official further stated that another 27 returnees of Majuli from outside the State, who were routed through the Zonal Screening Centre at Kakodunga in Jorhat and were under quarantine at Kaziranga University, were discharged on Monday by the Jorhat District Covid-19 Discharge Board after their results came out negative at JMCH.
All the youths were brought to Majuli to be sent for home quarantine for the remaining days of the compulsory 14-day quarantine period.
It may be mentioned here that only one person of Majuli island identified as Mrinal Gogoi, who was a returnee from Chennai, tested positive for Covid-19 on May 18 and is presently undergoing treatment at JMCH.
The Majuli district administration following Mrinal Gogoi testing positive on May 19, declared the quarantine centre in which Gogoi was kept and its adjoining area as containment zone.
An order passed by the Majuli Deputy Commissioner Bikram Kairi had stated that in view of detection of a Covid-19 positive person at the Risong Family Guest House at Garamur Chariali, which was made a quarantine centre, the guest house and the adjoining area has been declared a containment zone in the interest of maintenance of public hygiene and to prevent further spread of novel
coronavirus.
