Over 50,000 Passengers Screened Until 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 keeping with the Executive, 98 samples had been examined out of which 97 had been discovered to be damaging.

An Air India’s Boeing 747 Jumbo plane wearing 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 keeping with the government, the passengers might be saved in isolation on the quarantine amenities for 14 days.

220 of the 324 Indians had been despatched to the Military quarantine facility at Manesar whilst the remainder 104 had been shifted to Indo-Tibetan Border Police-managed Chhawla Camp within the nationwide capital for scientific commentary.

The fatal coronavirus has a minimum of 259 lives in mainland China.

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