No Quarantine for These People travelling to Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government modified the quarantine policy and exempted government officials, professionals, businessmen and others, visiting Odisha on work and leaving the state in 72 hours,from mandatory quarantine.

In urban area, the home quarantine period has been reduced from 21 days to 14 days. If a returnee does not have proper quarantine facility at home, he/she will undergo institutional or paid quarantine.

The returnees in rural area will now undergo 7 days of mandatory institutional quarantine. After spending a week at quarantine centre, Returnees will be discharged and they will have to stay in home quarantine for another 7 days.