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Business News/ News / India/  Coronavirus update: Home quarantine stamp ink rubs out in just 3 days
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Coronavirus update: Home quarantine stamp ink rubs out in just 3 days

The Election Commission says the ink being used in home quarantine stamp normally lasts for only three days
  • The EC has allowed other authorities to use the ink for home quarantine
  • A man shows his hand which was stamped by airport authorities as he was advised for home quarantine after he arrived from overseas, amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fears, in Mumbai. (Reuters)Premium
    A man shows his hand which was stamped by airport authorities as he was advised for home quarantine after he arrived from overseas, amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fears, in Mumbai. (Reuters)

    NEW DELHI : As various state governments have started using indelible ink, used during voting, to stamp the hands of people who have been kept under home quarantine for coronavirus, the Election Commission has clarified that the stamp will have an expiry date of just three days. Usually, people are kept under home quarantine for a period of 14 days.

    "Commission would like to bring to the notice of entities be they be ministries, departments in GoI, any PSU in the central or state sector, govts of user states, govts, of UTs that indelible ink mark is normally expected to last for 3 days when applied on the skin but lasts for a few weeks on the fingernail till the nail grows out," the Election Commission said in a letter to the health ministry today.

    People in several states like Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnataka are putting stamps on the back of the palm of those put under home quarantine.

    The commission has reviewed its decision suo moto and it is decided to allow usage of indelible ink on persons for stamping for home quarantine by health authorities.

    “…due to extraordinary circumstance due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Commission has reviewed its decision suo moto and it has decided to allow usage on indelible ink on persons for stamping for home quarantine by health authorities," the letter read.

    The authorities have been asked to not use the indelible ink on left hand's finger. “Ministry may standardize the mark and the location on the body where the mark has to be applied so that it does not come in way of conduct of elections anywhere in the country," the letter added.

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    Published: 25 Mar 2020, 04:13 PM IST
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