Tourism Department to use TRHs as quarantine centres

Dehradun, April 1 -- The Tourism department too is playing its part in efforts underway to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Uttarakhand. The tourist rest houses (TRHs) of the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) and Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN) are being prepared for use as quarantine centres. Further, these two corporations are also sanitising cooking gas cylinders being supplied in the whole State.

The Tourism secretary Dilip Jawalkar informed that the LPG cylinders are being sanitised to prevent the possibility of any infection being introduced to homes through the cylinders. The departmental employees undertaking this task have been provided necessary equipment along with protective gloves and masks. The GMVN and KMVN are undertaking...