They checked into Golden Nest Hotel in Andheri (East), which is a designated quarantine hotel for international travellers. The next day, when a BMC doctor went to check on them, the travellers were missing.
A civic healthcare worker collects a swab sample of a passenger at Dadar station on Friday. Pic/Ashish Raje
Four travellers from Dubai were booked for escaping institutional quarantine within a day of checking in into a hotel at Andheri (East). Police is now searching for the four.
They were identified as Sushil Sabnis from Ambernath, Zubair Mohammad Ghalte from Murud in Raigad, Nikita Chandar from Ulhasnagar and Swapan Chandradas from Kalyan.
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The travellers had landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on February 10. They checked into Golden Nest Hotel in Andheri (East), which is a designated quarantine hotel for international travellers, stated a report in The Times of India.
The next day, when a BMC doctor went to check on them, the travellers were missing.
The doctor then complained to the civic officer and, on Friday, a complaint was lodged at Andheri police station.
Last week when mayor Kishori Pednekar and deputy mayor Suhas Wadkar conducted a surprise inspection it was found that four international travellers who were to quarantine at a hotel in Santacruz had fled.
The mayor directed that action be immediately taken against the hotel authorities and the four travellers. “Once passengers are brought to the hotel, it is also the responsibility of the hotel owner to ensure they remain quarantined. Hotel owners should inform the police station concerned and the BMC if passengers slip away, but they are not doing so. Stern action needs to be taken against those involved in such incidents,” she said.
A senior civic official said after the mayor’s surprise visit revealed that several international travellers were skipping the mandatory quarantine, BMC has begun random checks.
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