The increasing number of people in institutional quarantine is slowly becoming a burden on the cash-strapped local bodies. The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is in the process of identifying more possible quarantine centres to accommodate the people coming from abroad and other States. As on Friday, the civic body has 716 people in 33 institutional quarantine centres. Among the many facilities that the Corporation has arranged for institutional quarantine are hostels or buildings of private colleges as well. Now, the used bedsheets are being burned in most of the quarantine centres as the health wing officials have found that washing and using it can be impractical.

Source: The Hindu May 29, 2020 18:35 UTC