Air India Successfully Airlifts Indians From Wuhan

In view of the threat posed by the coronavirus, Indians living in China’s Wuhan were airlifted and brought back to India on Saturday morning. Among the people airlifted were some students who had been studying there.

A special Air India flight, with a team of five doctors, had departed for Wuhan on Friday. The special flight from Wuhan landed at Delhi airport at around 7.30 a.m. on Saturday with 324 passengers on board.

Six Indian citizens were not airlifted because they were suffering from fever. A Coronavirus quarantine facility has been set up at the airport for Indians returning from Wuhan, where they were checked for symptoms of the coronavirus.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has set up a special ward with 600 beds in south-west Delhi’s cantonment area for people airlifted from China, where suspected patients of the coronavirus will be kept under observation. A special team of doctors has been deployed for this purpose.

With the coronavirus becoming increasingly-lethal in China, every country is taking steps to ensure the safety of its citizens settled there. The coronavirus is continually spreading and becoming life-threatening in China, with more than 260 people dying there from contracting this disease.  

.@airindiain successfully airlifts Indians stuck in #Wuhan including several students after outbreak of the novel #coronavirus which has claimed 260 lives in #China till now@rumanaalvi4

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