31 Indians brought from Kabul, sent to quarantine facility
   Date :31-Mar-2020

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NEW DELHI :
 
A SPECIAL flight from Afghanistan carrying 31 Indians, including diplomats and ITBP personnel, landed at the Delhi airport on Monday and the passengers were sent to a quarantine facility set up in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said. Officials had earlier said that a total of 35 people were brought on the plane. They were brought on a Kam Air flight from Kabul that landed at about 2:40 pm at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.
 
“There are 31 passengers on the special flight from Kabul that includes four diplomats, 26 ITBP men and a civilian,” a senior official said. Their medical samples will be taken to check coronavirus symptoms, he said. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is deployed to guard the main Indian embassy complex in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and four consulates in Herat, Kandhar, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif. The passengers were screened with temperature guns by ITBP personnel at the tarmac and were sent to the quarantine facility in the Chhawla area of Delhi. The centre already has 481 Indians who were recently rescued from Rome in Italy.
 
MHA directs States, UTs to quarantine returning migrants
 
NEW DELHI :
 
THE Central Government has issued directives to State Governments and Union Territories to put returning migrants in nearest shelter by the State/Union Territory Government quarantine facilities after proper screening for a period of 14 days as per standard health protocol. The development comes after hundreds of migrants, including daily wage workers, started to walk all the way to their hometowns from several cities, after the country was under a 21-day lockdown to contain COVID-19.
 
“The migrant people who have moved out to reach their home States/home town must be kept in the nearest shelter by State/UTs Government quarantine facilities after proper screening for a minimum period of 14 days,” as per the instructions issued by the MHA. The Union Home Ministry has asked State/Union Territory Governments to make all arrangements for migrant labourers who have been stranded due to nationwide lockdown.