People returning from abroad can be quarantined in hotels: Govt guidelines

The ministry has directed the owners of the facilities to make them either a quarantine or isolation facilities as they cannot co-exist

As India carries out one of the world's biggest rescue missions for stranded Indians abroad, Vande Bharat, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued additional guidelines for quarantine of returnees from abroad, their contacts and isolation of suspects, or confirmed cases, in private facilities.

In the guidelines issued on Thursday, the health ministry has said there are a large number of facilities such as hotels, service apartments, lodges that remain unoccupied due to the impact of Covid-19 on travel and tourism. There are also instances where people who don't have the requisite