Other than this facility, the rest have been kept at another quarantine facility prepared by the Army in Manesar (Gurgaon)
New Delhi: Around 406 Indians, conducted test for coronavirus who were evacuated to Delhi from China’s Wuhan city to an ITBP facility here, have been negative till now, a senior official said on Monday.
“Regularly medical checkup is conducted with all the tests that inmates for possible coronavirus exposure have been negative till now,” an ITBP spokesperson said.
The Spokesperson said, “As now four isolation beds have been set up at the facility in case it is required and doctors from AIIMS and Safdarjung are visiting regularly to assist the medical team of the force that is posted here 24 hours,”.
As of 406 people have been kept at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police facility in Chhawla area of New Delhi after they were brought in two batches from Wuhan onboard separate Air India flights.
The total number of males is 302 including three children, and 100 females, at this facility.
Among all two people were shifted from the Manesar facility to here on Sunday.
In this group, seven are Maldivians nationals. They were evacuated by the second flight and brought here on Sunday.
Other than this facility, the rest have been kept at another quarantine facility prepared by the Army in Manesar (Gurgaon).
According to Chinese government officials, the death toll in the coronavirus epidemic has risen up to 361 in that country while the number of confirmed cases has climbed to 17,205.
Reportedly India too has detected three cases of coronavirus and they are from Kerala.
China’s Wuhan, Hubei’s capital, is the epicenter of the outbreak.
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
