GUJAR KHAN: A total of 201 passengers who returned from Qatar were quarantined in various facilities in Jhelum on Wednesday.

Deputy Commissioner Saif Anwar Jappa told Dawn that a special flight, QR-632, brought 251 expats to Islamabad International Airport from Doha. Of them, 201 passengers were directly transferred to quarantine centres in Jhelum district.

There are 51 passengers quarantined in the Sohawa quarantine facility, while 150 are at the cadet college in Dina.

The passengers were quarantined in Jhelum because the quarantine centres in Rawalpindi district were over occupation.

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2020