None to keep surveillance on long-distance train passengers
The Hindu
Monitoring passengers arriving from ‘hot spots’ is needed for more effective control of the pandemic, say officials
While there is a lockdown in force for 20 hours day for the next 10 days with bus and metro rail services curtailed, the administration seems to have missed taking into account the hundreds of long-distance train passengers arriving in the capital daily. Senior South Central Railway (SCR) officials said at least 50,000 passengers arrive in various special trains in the three stations of Secunderabad, Hyderabad and Kacheguda. Passengers starting the journey are “randomly” checked for temperature when they get into the trains, but there are no checks whatsoever, once they alight at the terminal station. “Last year, we had TS health department setting up a desk, taking down details of each and every passenger. Healthcare workers were calling up for next few days to enquire about their health. Though it was wound up in mid-June when other relaxations came in, it did serve a purpose to keep an eye on passengers arriving from other places with a quarantine stamp on their arms,” they pointed out, pleading anonymity.More Related News