A 28-year-old returnee from Tamil Nadu has been forced to quarantine himself for seven days inside a toilet.
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After being discharged from a government-run quarantine centre, he had to spend his home quarantine period inside the toilet in Jamugaon village in Nuagaon block as he did not have enough space for self-isolation in his house.
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Manas Patra, who was working in a company in Tamil Nadu, was admitted at the government-run temporary medical camp (TMC) at Sudukanthi School and got discharged after seven days.
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After the mandatory seven-days stay at the TMC, he was told to spend another week in home isolation.
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Notably, the state government has made it mandatory that returnees in rural areas will undergo seven days” institutional quarantine, after which asymptomatic persons will be discharged to undergo home quarantine for a further period of seven days. He spent seven days from June 9 to 15 in that newly-built toilet.
