NEW DELHI: The army, which is spending Rs 3.5 lakh every day to run its coronavirus quarantine facility at Manesar that was created on an emergency requirement and has catered to over 400 people, is faced with a new problem of people making special requests like boiled food, individual rooms and not barrack-like accommodations, and “five star treatment”.The problem came up after some people, who were part of a group of 83 brought from Italy via an Air India flight, demanded individual rooms upon reaching the Manesar facility on Wednesday morning. Some of these people who were brought to the facility had initially refused to deboard a bus they were brought in. There was ruckus at the facility. Officials running the facility were later able to convince them, citing that the facility was brought up on emergency requirements.Sources said that the issue comes when the army is working under trying circumstances. The army has committed about 60 of its personnel to run the facility. It had to cater for the group arriving from Italy, while also managing for 119 people who were onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the Japan coast.Army spokesperson Colonel Aman Anand said that 265 people have been quarantined under the military’s care at Manesar and another facility at Hindon. Sources added that this includes 58 people who were brought from Iran via an air force C-17 aircraft. Anand also said that more people will be brought back to India and the military is ready to accommodate them at other quarantine facilities in Jaisalmer , Gorakhpur, Jodhpur, Jhansi, Devlali, Kolkata , Chennai and Suratgarh. Meanwhile, sources said that 400 more people will be brought back from Iran in two flights and taken to Jaisalmer.The Manesar facility was one of the first quarantine centres established in India. “The Indian Army is incurring an approximate expenditure of Rs 3.5 lakhs per day in running the facility. It has committed 60 personnel to run the facility. While the facility is deemed to be a facility responding to emergency requirements given by the government, many people who have been quarantined here demand special facilities like independent rooms. This creates hindrances in smooth functioning of the medical and administrative staff at the facility,” sources said.“As the evacuees have already traveled together, the aspect of individual quarantine for 14 days may not find much merit. Despite differing individual preferences and demands, the army has gone about doing their job in the best possible way,” they added.The army had created the Manesar facility to cater to about 300 people for quarantine in January after the coronavirus broke out. Here, people are classified into different groups and monitored for 14 days. The facility consists of accommodation barracks, administrative areas and a medical centre. To prevent a mass outbreak, the facility has been divided into sectors, each with a maximum capacity of 50 people. The population of the sectors are not allowed to intermingle with each other. After 14 days, persons with no symptoms are allowed to go home, while those found infected are shifted to isolation facilities for recovery.“But despite the short duration at which it was created and that too on an emergency basis, people make special demands like not wanting to eat the cooked food and instead demanding boiled food, because they don’t want oil in their meals,” sources said.Till date, a total of 455 individuals who have arrived from Wuhan (248), Japan (124), including from the cruise ship, and Italy (83) have been quarantined in three batches at the Manesar facility. While 83 people will remain at the facility, the previous batch of 124 will move out on Thursday. “265 citizens, including nine foreign nationals of Indian origin, are under our care at Hindon and Manesar. We are expecting more citizens to be brought back to India and are ready to absorb them at our new facilities,” said Anand, while explaining the defence ministry’s preparations for the virus.