Chennai Trade Center in Nandambakkam is known for being one of the notable venues for hosting the trade fairs and events and the premises of the trade center has now become the COVID-19 quarantine facility to house the quarantined patients. 

Earlier this month, the Chennai Corporation has opened the city's biggest quarantine facility at the Trade Center and the convention hall has been installed with 550 isolation beds to quarantine the patients. However, the facility had seen furors over treating the patients as they complained about the poor facilities and the absence of proper ventilation. 

The patients who are quarantined at the Center had, on Monday, urged the authorities to release them from the facility and sent them home and they complained that there is a lack of the efficient discharging process for the people who had tested negative. According to the reports, the patients at the facility are with mild or no symptoms, young-aged, and with no co-morbid conditions. 

Over 84 patients from the Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital have been brought to the trade center on May 4 and about 125 people have been moved there the next day, on May 5. According to the corporation, these people are with no requirement to have treatment at the hospital as they have shown no symptoms. However, they have been quarantined at the Trade Center, which is one of the quarantine facilities in the city. 

The shifted people had asked the authorities why they have been moved to the quarantine facility from the hospital. The reports stated that the trade center had 276 people as of May 11. The authorities claimed that the issues at the Center had been rectified and the people are being provided with good ventilation, sanitation, and good food and the facility has been regularly disinfected. 

The authorities said that people at the facility are urging to sent them home without understanding the risks of the transmission. These people don't possess self-quarantine facilities their homes and discharging them without abiding by the protocol would surge the infection. These facilities have been set up with the view of accomodating the people who need to be quarantined so that the hospitals can treat virus-hit and symptomatic patients.

The reports further stated that Chennai has 39 quarantine facilities with 5000 isolation beds as of May 11. Such facilities have been installed at the Velammal Engineering College which has 289 patients, DG Vaishnava College which has 170 patients, Loyola College which has 112 patients, and National Skill Development Corporation which has 39 patients and all these patients have mild symptoms for the virus. 

According to the protocol of the Union Health Ministry, the patients with mild symptoms can be discharged after ten days of quarantine and they would be advised to stay under home-isolation for seven additional days.  The asymptomatic people who treated at Stanley Medical College had shifted to DG Vaishnava College while the patients from Omandurar Government Hospital have been shifted to the facility at Loyola College.