BENGALURU: An expert committee, comprising epidemiologists and virologists among others, has recommended to the Karnataka government to do away with institutional quarantine, government officials said.
Karnataka has already halved mandatory institutional quarantine for those coming from other states to seven days, and is now deliberating on doing away with the system completely due to resource constraints and to avoid the risk of spreading covid-19 within these crowded facilities. “Our expert committee has given its opinion that it (institutional quarantine centres) may not have utility and keeping too many people in institutional quarantine may have (other) negative effects due to crowding also," Jawaid Akthar, additional chief secretary,