Student with quarantine mark unloaded at Nagpur from Rajdhani
NAGPUR: A student with a quarantine stamp on his hand was stopped and offloaded on Sunday at Nagpur station. He was taken to the MLA Hostel quarantine facility in a Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) ambulance as a precaution.
A New Delhi-based couple was detrained from Bengaluru-New Delhi Rajdhani Express in Kazipeth on Saturday. The 21-year-old student had returned from Russia to Delhi traveling in New Delhi-Chennai Express. He had a Chennai card and was a coach in the AC-3 tier B2. He’s a Vijayawada Local.
The applicant, traveling alone, was screened by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the railway hospital’s medical team at theCovid-19 check booth set up by Central Railways near Platform 1. His recording of temperature was’ natural,’ a Railway source said.
While the railway workers tried their best to reassure the man, anxiety and frustration were written on his face as he pulled his luggage into the ambulance before it sped off.
At Itarsi, some co-passengers saw the home quarantine stamp on his hand when the train arrived there around 10.30 am. Panicked, they immediately told TTE Sunil Kumar Singh, who had been alerting the commercial control room and railway station in Nagpur.
At Nagpur, along with deputy station superintendents Manish Gaur and Atul Shrivastav, assistant commercial manager (goods) SG Rao and a nursing team headed by the divisional medical officer of the Central Railway hospital Dr. Chandrashekhar were ready for assistance. Commercial department workers had notified the control room of the state government, requesting assistance in moving the passenger to the MLA Hostel quarantine facility.
“Once the train reached Platform 2 at the railway station in Nagpur at 14.30pm, we de-trained the passenger. There was no panic as the passenger hasn’t tested coronavirus positive yet, “Rao said. “We had the whole coach sanitized at Nagpur before the train left for the further journey,” Rao added. “Any aspect of the passenger’s coach could be using has been thoroughly sanitized,” he said.
MLA Hostel sources said the student was not going to be screened because he was not a’ patient’ but just listed as a’ home quarantine.’ He will be released, if no signs emerge, after at least 48 hours according to the current government guidelines.
“If symptoms arise he (the student) will be tested. Under no conditions will he be permitted to use public transport before 14 days, and would have to live back at the MLA Hostel quarantine facility, “a health official said.
Passenger trains are seen as the main means of transmitting coronavirus since thousands of people use the railway network. Also, authorities and front-line personnel are finding criminal cases very difficult to identify.
On Saturday, a Delhi-based couple was offloaded at Kazipeth in Telangana on Saturday after co-passengers noticed a home quarantine seal on a man’s side. After sanitization, the AC compartment in which they were traveling was sealed and passengers in other compartments adjusted.
