WEB DESK
India’s Health Ministry has said that more than 9400 people are presently under community surveillance in 32 States and UTs following the novel Coronavirus outbreak.
Universal screening for all flights from Singapore and Thailand besides Hong Kong and China is already ongoing at earmarked aero-bridges. The screening of passengers is now on in all 21 airports, international seaports and border crossings.
As of now, 1818 flights and over one lakh 97 thousand passengers have been screened at 21 airports. Health Ministry is extending all the possible support to the states and union territories in order to combat the situation. A total of 1510 samples have been tested and 1507 samples were found negative except for three samples which had tested positive already from Kerala.
The containment and prevention activities are being taken up on utmost priority. All the states are continually strengthening their rapid response teams to counter any eventuality.