The Cabinet Secretary held a high-level review meeting in New Delhi on the preparedness for Novel Coronavirus with the Secretaries of Health and Family Welfare, External Affairs, Home Affairs, Civil Aviation, Department of Health Research and representatives from ITBP, AFMS, and NDMA.
Cabinet Secretary held six review meetings so far and during the course of the meeting, a new travel advisory has been issued urging everyone to refrain from travel to China, travelers on return could be quarantined. Also, anyone with a travel history of China since January 15, 2020, and from now on could be quarantined.
TheMinistry of External Affairs has also issued an advisory in addition to this. Dueto certain current developments, travel to India on E-visas stands temporarilysuspended with immediate effect. This applies to holders of Chinese passportsand applicants of other nationalities residing in the People's Republic ofChina.
Accordingto reports, 58,658 passengers from 445 flights have been screened as of Sunday.A total of 142 symptomatic travelers picked up by the IDSP have been referredto the isolation facilities. 130 samples have been tested of which 128 havebeen found to be negative. The two positive cases found in Kerala are beingmonitored and are clinically stable.
Thesecond batch of 330 passengers (including 7 Maldivian citizens) from Wuhan hasarrived in India. Of these, 300 (including 7 Maldivian citizens) are housed atITBP Chawla Camp and 30 are in Maneswar who are being effectively monitored.
