L&T to offer quarantine facilities to about 250,000 contract workers

As the country battles the deadly second surge of COVID-19, engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen and Toubro says it has come up with quarantine centres for its about 2.5 lakh contract labourers and about 45,000 employees.

Quarantine facilities have been made available from Eastern to Southern India while tie-ups with 144 hospitals have been made to provide medical care to the infected workforce, the company claimed.

At a time when the country is reeling under the second wave of the pandemic, several of Larsen & Toubro's project sites and manufacturing facilities have supported employees as well as contract workforce by providing safe, well-equipped and hygienic quarantine facilities for their wellbeing and care, a company official said.

The quarantine facilities have been made available at 14 cities and has a capacity of 1,205 rooms to safely isolate COVID patients with mild symptoms, the official said, adding the centres have been set up at Mumbai, Madh