Coronavirus: 14,000 people quarantined for 28 days in Sialkot

14, 000 people have been put in quarantine in Sialkot on Wednesday after up to 2,597 people, recently returned from abroad, along with their families.

As being reported, people have been quarantined in their homes in the Sialkot district of Punjab for 28 days as an anti-coronavirus treatment.

According to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. Nasir Mahmood Bashir,14,000 people (including 2,597 people who recently returned from abroad) have been quarantined in 2,200 houses in urban and rural areas of Sialkot district’s four tehsils, Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur, and their houses were also declared quarantine centers for 28 days.

The Sialkot district administration and Sialkot health department have jointly tagged their houses as quarantine centers.

According to DC, the Federal Investigation Agency had provided the list of 2,597 people to the district administration who flew back to Pakistan recently from America, Canada, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other countries.

Reportedly, several suspected coronavirus patients were put in quarantine, while the special health teams started tests of those quarantined people.