Students who arrived from Bangladesh on Friday still waiting for screening

Srinagar: Kashmiri students studying in Bangladesh, who reached Srinagar last Friday are still waiting for screening even after elapsing of two days.
Sources said that 45 Kashmiri students studying in Bangladesh reached Srinagar airport on Friday morning and authorities shifted to hotel Residency in Nowgam area and told us you will screened within an hour.
Now two days have passed but authorities are yet to start the process of screening, they said. “By keeping us here without screening, they are risking our lives as nobody knows who carries virus or not,” they said.
At least 45 students of Seerat-ul-Din Community based medical college Bangladesh reached Srinagar airport last Friday and were shifted in two vehicles to Nowgam for screening.
“We are still waiting for screening,” said aggrieved father of one of the students. He said authorities did good by giving us separate rooms but rooms were not cleaned due to which most of the students have got throat infection.
“We called the authorities about the condition of rooms and they send some employees of SMC Srinagar but SMC employees rejected our requests to clean the hotel but in turn they said we can’t clean the rooms in which Coronavirus patients are staying,” he said. “If authorities have kept us in quarantine, we respect it but what about it when are asked to have lunch and dinner together.”
He said that they are reluctant that they don’t want to remain in quarantine, but we want to remain in quarantine after proper screening. “Anybody among may be carrying virus and keeping us here without screening, authorities are putting lives of all at risk,” he said.
Students demanded that authorities must screen us at an earliest so that we can live here without fear and apprehensions. Nodal officer for coronavirus Dr S M Qadri, he said that all of the students who have arrived from Bangladesh are symptomatic and have been kept in quarantine as a precautionary measure. “If anyone among them develops any symptoms of coronavirus, then protocol will be activated, he said adding that they are being monitored by team of doctors on regular basis,” he said