37 people return from Maha & Gujarat, detained

Shivamogga: Nearly 37 people, who returned from Maharashtra and Gujarat to Shivamogga late on Friday, have been detained by police.
The police and health department officials are collecting their details. They entered Shivamogga through Chitradurga-Shivamogga Road and were detained at Holehonnuru check-post on Friday night. Most of them had valid passes to cross the border district.
On March 5, nine persons from Shikaripura travelled to Ahmedabad by train for a Jamaath congregation. Due to lockdown, they got stranded in Ahmedabad and quarantined. The Gujarat government sent them back to Shivamogga by private vehicles and they reached here on Friday. The remaining 28 were working in Maharashtra and they too reached Shivamogga on same night.
District health officer Rajesh Suragihalli told TOI that the group which reached Shivamogga was from Maharashtra and Gujarat. They have been taken to a private college ground and their background information including travel history have been collected. The health department officials collected their throat swabs and sent to laboratory for examination. They will be quarantined at a separate facility in a private college hostel, the DHO said.