Amid the spurt in COVID-19 cases, a total of 50 hotels in the State have agreed to offer pay-and-use rooms to people who have been asked to live in isolation for 14 days.
An official on Tuesday said at least 12 hotels have been roped in by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to offer quarantine facilities to people at a price in the capital city as per the Health Department’s protocol.
Similar arrangements have also been made in around 26 hotels in Cuttack as part of measures taken by the State Government to contain the spread of COVID-19, they said.
The decision was taken in view of the requirement for more quarantine centres to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Many Government buildings have already been designated as such facilities, a senior official said.
Three hotels in Bhubaneswar were initially selected for the purpose while seven more subsequently joined the pool. Two other properties in Mancheswar and Cuttack Road voluntarily joined the scheme.
The Puri Municipality has tied up with at least three hotels for providing quarantine facilities on payment in the pilgrim town. Similar arrangements have been made at Sambalpuralso.
“Apart from setting up a large number of hospital beds exclusively for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, we are making available quarantine centres for people who have come from overseas and other States recently,” the official added.
“If the requirement increases, these hotels will provide self-quarantine facilities,” he said.
The person seeking to stay under self-quarantine in the listed hotels on a pay-and -use basis can avail the facility for a maximum of 14 days.
“Tariff charged by these hotels for self-quarantine facilities range between Rs 450 and Rs 2,000 per day,” the official added.