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| Travel of non-local laborers to Kashmir risks Jammu, caution experts | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 20: Even as hundreds of non-local laborers from outside J&K are travelling to Kashmir by road, such movement poses risk to Jammu, which has largely maintained discipline in fighting Covid-19.
With construction activities having picked up in Kashmir, the demand for non-local laborers has picked up. Sources said the laborers are travelling to Kashmir on the request of Kashmiri builders and contractors. Such laborers are travelling to Kashmir in fleet of busses which take route obviously through Jammu district.
Reports suggest that such laborers are not being put to any test or quarantine on entering Jammu province via Lakhanpur while such travelers have agreed to the same before media persons.
Given the shocking spike of over one million cases across the country, health experts said travel of such people via Jammu poses risk to the life in the winter capital.
What is even shocking is that such travelers are seen riding busses without mandatory face masks and often take halt in the winter capital.
Health experts said movement of such “vulnerable people” through Jammu poses threat in the wake of monsoon season having commenced.
“Covid-19 is a droplet infection and if any of such travelers is Covid positive, he or she is leaving the otherwise clean air of Jammu infected through halts and this infection can easily spread,” said a senior medico on the condition of anonymity.
He said given the fact the Jammu has been disciplined in fighting Covid-19 and thus the cases are far less that those reported in Kashmir in general or Srinagar in particular, any negligence on the part of the authorities can prove “catastrophic.”
“Such travelers should not be allowed daytime travel via Jammu lest they potentially infect local populace and that their travel should be monitored by government agencies lest they halt at places and mingle with the local populace at shops and eateries,” the doctor added.
It is pertinent to mention that it’s the self-discipline of the people of Jammu that the deadly virus has largely remained away from the local populace.
But now the movement of large number of non-local laborers to Kashmir poses threat. |
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