Pregnant women, cancer patients, those on dialysis exempted from admin quarantine

Srinagar: The J&K Government has announced that certain categories of incoming passengers are exempted from mandatory administrative quarantine of 14 days. They would be sampled on arrival for COVID-19 test and sent to home quarantine for 14 days. If the test results are positive, they will be brought to a COVID-19 hospital for recovery and treatment.

The exempted categories include:

1. Pregnant women in last trimester with Doctor’s certificate of pregnancy,
2. Cancer patients on chemotherapy, chronically ill patients discharged from a hospital after a surgical procedure,
3. Dialysis patients with Doctor’s certificate of being on dialysis,
4. Mothers with infants below 1 year
5. Children below the age of 10 years travelling alone without a family member,
6. Government of India personnel on bonafide Government duty,
7. Passengers travelling with an RTPCR test negative certificate from an ICMR approved laboratory/testing facility, not older than two days (48 hours) before the arrival date.
8. Armed Forces and CAPF personnel returning to join their duties in the UT are also exempted from testing and are sent to their respective battalions/units after their arrival.

Travellers from a Red district to an Orange district within the UT of Jammu and Kashmir will also have to compulsorily undergo a COVID-19 test following which they will be under administrative quarantine, for 14 days.

If tested negative, they will go to Home Quarantine and if tested positive, sent to a COVID hospital for recovery and treatment.