Will have to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine on arrival
Current Affairs:Following 24 hours of wild conferences, India picked up Beijing’s consent to carrier Indians from Wuhan. A Boeing 747 VT-ESO will leave Mumbai at 12 PM to carrier 250 Indians.
“When they are brought back, they will be kept in isolate for about fourteen days,” said Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday.
Sources said Beijing clasped under tension from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). “Our team was all set. The authorization required significant investment,” said an Air India official. In the interim, IndiGo, as well, has exhorted its pilots and lodge team to wear covers and dodge open spots during delays in Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Singapore.
Venturing up its arrangement to battle the danger of a potential novel coronavirus (nCoV) episode, the Indian government on Tuesday said that screening of travelers would be extended to 20 air terminals alongside adding new research centers to test the infection. So far 35,000 travelers have been screened in India. Vardhan held a survey meeting on Tuesday to check out the circumstance. He said that in the following a couple of days, traveler screening would be extended to 20 air terminals, from the present seven. At present, warm screening of travelers originating from China is being done at the seven major air terminals — Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Kochi.
Aditi Mehta 