By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, June 4: The government has listed 78 hotels as quarantine centres for all the air passengers arriving in Nepal from Turkey, Qatar and India.
The government designated the hotels as quarantine after it decided to resume the international flights to and from Turkey, Qatar and India from June 1.
According to a press statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Department of Tourism has selected the hotels as quarantine centres. They include seven five-star hotels, seven four-star, 51 tourist standards, and eight other hotels including Hotel Airport, which had already been serving as quarantine, and two resorts, Park Village and Gokarna Forest.
As per the criteria set by the government, all hotels and resorts
selected for as quarantine must have at least 20 rooms, Rudra Man Singh Tamang, joint secretary and director general at the Department, said
Similarly, the hotels should have open spaces to play and exercise. Similarly, there should be a separate gate inside the hotel as health related standards have to be followed.
Similarly, the hotels should serve food and other daily meals separately.
Dining area, buffet, gym, sauna, indoor and outdoor games are, however, strictly provided inside the hotels. The hotels should arrange a separate place for taking swab test of the quarantined passengers.
The government has imposed a mandatory quarantine of five days for those returning from Malaysia and 10 days for those returning from other countries.