As many as 1,211 people who were quarantined in Punjab's Pathankot district for 21 days were sent home in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, a senior official said.
The people were handed over to the Kathua administration at Lakhanpur, said Kathua District Magistrate O P Bhagat.
He said the people were made to pass through a sanitisation tunnel and a team of doctors and paramedical staff recorded their temperature. The administration has arranged a fleet of buses to send these people to their homes.
The official said 350 people belong to Kashmir while the rest to Jammu division.