India geared up to combat global challenge as travel advisory has been extended to 12 more airports in addition to the current seven .India, including nations across the world have initiated preventive measures to make sure the disease doesn’t turn pandemic.
Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also confirmed that as many as 20,844 passengers from 96 flights have been screened for novel coronavirus symptoms as of January 24. 4082 passengers were screened in 19 flights in a single day on yesterday.
According to the ministry, so far no case of novel coronavirus (nCoV) has been detected in the country. However, three persons have been put under observation. Two out of the three persons are from Mumbai while one is from Hyderabad.
As of now, total of eleven people have been kept under observation for possible exposure to novel coronavirus infection- three in Mumbai, seven in Kerala and one in Hyderabad.
Civil Aviation Ministry has asked airlines to follow the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines to manage and notify anybody reporting illness on flights originating from China and disembarking in India. MoCA has also instructed for in-flight announcements for India bound flights.
The 12 airports where advisory will be displayed are Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Gaya, Bagdogra, Jaipur, Lucknow, Trivandrum, Tiruchi, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam.
WHO has maintained that the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) spread was not a global health emergency, but is an emergency in China.
The Indian Embassy in Beijing is in touch with Chinese authorities in Beijing and Wuhan, as well as Indians in Hubei Province, especially in Wuhan.
The Ministry of External Affairs is also disseminating travel advisory in local languages to Indian embassies in China and neighbouring countries for wider circulation and passenger information
