As many as 58 passengers, including driver and helper of a bus, were sent to quarantine here on Monday soon after they returned from a pilgrimage in Uttar Pradesh.
The tourists, residents of Balangir and Subarnapur districts, had gone to Mathura and Vrindavan before announcement of the lockdown. The local administration made transport arrangements for their return to Odisha.
They returned via Rourkela passing through the Jharkhand border. On their arrival on Monday, the local administration sent them to the Ispat General Hospital (IGH) for a primary health checkup. All of them were stated to be COVID-19 negative.
However, they all were sent to an isolation centre developed by the Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) at Chhend for 14 days.
