Coronavirus: ITBP sets up 600-bedded quarantine facility in south Delhi

Border-guarding force ITBP has prepared a 600-bedded facility in Delhi to quarantine and provide basic medical care to those suspected to have been affected by new coronavirus, a senior official said on Friday.

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facility is operational in an Indo-Tibetan Border Police camp in south-west Delhi's Chhawla area that houses ITBP sector hequarters, its spokesperson Vivek Kumar Pandey said. A team of 25 doctors 15 from Safdarjung hospital and 10 from ITBP will be at facility, which has about 600 beds and has been prepared in wake of coronavirus outbreak, he said.

Special arrangements have been me to host children and women at facility, an uccupied residential unit for ITBP personnel, Pandey said. affected, including those being evacuated from China's Hubei Province on board a special Air India aircraft, will be brought to facility after first-level screening at airport, he said.

building complex has operational kitchens and bathrooms apart from modern amenities like Wi-Fi. 90,000-personnel-strong force is primarily tasked to guard 3,488-km Line of Actual Control with China under command of Union Home Ministry. Army has set up a similar facility in nearby Manesar.

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