Over 50,000 Passengers Screened Till Now For Coronavirus At Airports
New Delhi:
Over fifty-two thousand passengers from 326 flights had been screened for novel coronavirus at quite a lot of airports around the nation until Saturday, knowledgeable the Centre.
As many as 97 symptomatic travellers had been referred to isolation amenities, officers stated. In line with the Executive, 98 samples have been examined out of which 97 have been discovered to be damaging.
An Air India’s Boeing 747 Jumbo airplane sporting 324 Indian nationals, together with 3 minors and 211 scholars, from the coronavirus-hit Chinese language town of Wuhan, arrived right here on Saturday morning.
In line with the government, the passengers will probably be stored in isolation on the quarantine amenities for 14 days.
220 of the 324 Indians have been despatched to the Military quarantine facility at Manesar whilst the remainder 104 have been shifted to Indo-Tibetan Border Police-managed Chhawla Camp within the nationwide capital for scientific commentary.
The fatal coronavirus has no less than 259 lives in mainland China.
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