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Updated: Jan 31, 2020 19:30 IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 31 (ANI): Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Special Secretary (Health), Sanjeeva Kumar on Friday
said that 366 people are to be brought from China to India tomorrow."366 people are to be brought from China to India tomorrow
They will be kept in isolation for 14 days at the ITBP center in Chhawla
Safdarjung Hospital has kept 50 beds for critical patients," said Kumar.As part of the government's proactive measures to rescue Indian
citizens from China's Wuhan and keep them at an isolated place for a fixed period as a precautionary measure, Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) has created a residential facility in the national capital.Meanwhile, Air India special flight which departed earlier in the day from
Delhi has landed in Wuhan, China for the evacuation of Indians.An Air India special flight departing from Delhi on Friday will evacuate
around 400 Indians trapped in the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, the national carrier's Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani
Lohani said earlier in the day.Speaking to ANI, Lohani said that the Boeing 747 Jumbo aircraft will take off at 12 pm from Delhi today and
will return by 2 am on Saturday.The flight will include all necessary resources like masks, medical equipment, packed food, prescribed
medicines, along with a team of five doctors from the Health Ministry, and paramedical personnel from Air India.Twenty crew members,
including 15 cabin crew and five cockpit crew will be on board
Lohani said that the team of doctors and crew will be led by Air India's Director of Operations Captain Amitabh Singh.Lohani said that
further arrangements for the passengers upon their return to India will be done by the Ministry of External Affairs and the Health
Ministry.China has imposed a lockdown in Wuhan following the outbreak of the virus.Coronavirus has claimed the lives of as many as 213
people in China alone, while cases have been reported in several countries across the world
Health authorities around the world are taking action to prevent a global pandemic as the virus continues to spread, with cases reported in
Australia, France, the US, and several Asian countries besides China
