2 positive Gorakhpur men flee quarantine centre

Aparna Banerji

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 12

Two Gorakhpur men, who were tested positive on Thursday, have reportedly left the city in the middle of their quarantine and reached their home in UP.

While the health teams were trying to contact and bring them to isolation wards after their positive test samples, the men, aged 18 and 45 years, were found to have landed in Gorkahpur. However, people of the district can heave a sigh of relief as they are confirmed to have left. While they listed their address as Subhash Nagar in the Sodal area, health department said they didn’t inform authorities before leaving town.

Sources said the two men were known to have left by a bus and when health teams called them they were on their way to Gorakhpur. It is not yet known how crowded the vehicle in which they left in was or how many people they might have come in contact with on the way.

Both had self reported at the Jalandhar Civil Hospital and left quietly before the results of their tests were out. They left amid quarantine protocol. The health department and authorities of UP are at loggerheads following the matter.

Dr TP Singh, District Nodal Officer, Covid-19, said, “While one of them is a student, the other is a labourer. They live close by each other at the Sodal area. They did not inform health teams before leaving the district. The state authorities have intimated the UP authorities on the issue.”