Maha to stamp COVID-19 suspects who have been sent to home quarantine

Team Udayavani, Mar 17, 2020, 10:04 AM IST

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to stamp all COVID-19 suspect patients who have been sent to home quarantine in order to identify them easily.

As on Monday, 39 cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra and around seven suspected patients escaped from treatment centres in the last few days.

The stamping will help other people to identify those COVID-19 suspects, who try to mix among the public during the quarantine period. To this effect, the government issued an order asking all officials concerned at hospitals and the airport to ‘stamp’ behind the left palm of those under home quarantine, dates of isolation, with indelible ink that would last for 14 days.

The state government has also made it a punishable offense if any person attempts to evade the compulsory quarantine, or breaks ‘home quarantine’ and would forcibly move such person to a government isolation facility.