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Coronavirus: All evacuees from Wuhan to be discharged from facilities

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By
Feb 17, 2020 01:13 AM IST

The evacuees were housed at two facilities; 406 at an Indo-Tibetan Border Police facility and the remaining at an army centre in Manesar, Haryana.

All 654 people who were brought back from Wuhan have tested negative for novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the latest sample examination and will be discharged in a phased manner beginning Monday, said officials.

Wuhan evacuees at the ITBP's quarantine facility at Chhawla in New Delhi, on Sunday.(PTI Photo)
Wuhan evacuees at the ITBP's quarantine facility at Chhawla in New Delhi, on Sunday.(PTI Photo)

The evacuees were housed at two facilities; 406 at an Indo-Tibetan Border Police facility and the remaining at an army centre in Manesar, Haryana.

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Union health secretary Preeti Sudan said, “All the evacuees from Wuhan under quarantine at the two isolation facilities in Manesar and Chhawla will be discharged tomorrow and day after.”

The final samples of the people quarantined at the ITBP facility were collected by a team of doctors on Friday. All the final coronavirus test reports have been found negative, an ITBP spokesperson said on Sunday.

They will be discharged in a phased manner based on the advisory issued by the ministry of health with due medical procedures and protocols, he said.

A health advisory has also been issued for the people if they come across any symptoms of coronavirus after 14 days of leaving the quarantine.

The group also includes seven Maldives citizens. There are seven children including an infant in the group.

The evacuees were brought back from Wuhan on February 1 and 2 in two 747 Boeing Air India aircraft after the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in China.

The death toll from Covid-19 outbreak in China has climbed to 1,665 after 142 more people died, mostly in the worst-hit Hubei province, Chinese officials said on Sunday. There have been 68,500 cases so far in the neighbouring country.

Passengers arriving in flights from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and South Korea were being screened for possible exposure to the respiratory virus at 21 identified airports in India.

Passengers at 12 major and 65 minor seaports are also being screened. A central team will also monitor villages near the border in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Sikkim and West Bengal.

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    Anonna Dutt is a health reporter at Hindustan Times. She reports on Delhi government’s health policies, hospitals in Delhi, and health-related feature stories.

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