The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday rescued a Czech tourist named Petr, who had come to the State and had been visiting places of tourist interest from January 14, 2020.
Reportedly, he had no place to stay and was spending his days at the Indira Gandhi Park here for the last two days as private hotels were apprehensive to give him accommodation in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Petr was found in distress at IG Park on Thursday morning. On the direction of BMC Commissioner Prem Chandra Choudhury, BMC officials rescued him and arranged for his stay and food at Government costs at the BMC Yatri Niwas for the day.
Petr would be leaving for Kolkata at night and subsequently to his country on March 25.
Earlier in the day, a foreign national from Europe, who was in Bhubaneswar from January, was shifted from a hotel in the IRC Village area to the Yatri Niwas in view of the pandemic outbreak.