Thread for international passengers
1. More than 40,000 stranded Pakistanis are coming back to Pakistan over a period of 6 weeks . In Islamabad we have already received 15 flights and over 2200 passengers. This is for information of all who are coming here from abroad

2. Everyone who lands at the airport including the crew is picked up by the civil administration. No one is allowed to meet them. Private vehicles are hired for this . Those who can afford pay Rs 500 per passenger and those who can’t pay are taken free of cost.

3. For each flight 15/20 air conditioned buses are arranged so people are settled at a distance of 1.5 meters from each other. Once settled the passengers have 2 options . Either to go to a private notified hotel and pay their charges which amount to Rs 3000 per night ...

4... or go to a Govt quarantine free of cost . In Islamabad the notified hotels are all 3 or 4 star hotels with minimum of Rs 12000 per night but Govt has subsidised the hotel charges and only Rs 3000 is to be paid. Everyone is required to stay for 48 hours at the quarantine.

5. After completion of 48 hours health teams will come and take tests of every individual . Cost of the test is Rs 6500 but for passengers it is free and Govt pays for the test . Those who are tested negative are handed over to their families

6. Those tested negative are supposed to stay home quarantined for next 12 days . Their data and addresses are taken and shared with their District Administrations for monitoring . Those who are positive have to stay with us for the next 12 days and can’t be relieved

7. Positive patients are tested again after 12 days and if negative the above procedure is followed and if positive they are kept for another few days. We have quarantined 37 positive patients from international flights . 34 have recovered and gone to their homes. Queries?