Working hard to ensure smooth evacuation of Indians from China's Hubei: Indian Embassy

Amid unprecedented dely coronavirus outbreak, Embassy of India in Beijing posted an update on January 29 informing about ir work to ensure 'smooth evacuation' of Indians from China. vel virus has alrey claimed nearly 132 lives in China with 5,974 confirmed cases in country. Indian embassy in China is currently in touch with many sections of Indian community in Hubei including students. official account also posted helpline numbers for Indians to get in touch with officials as execute evacuation. 

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Spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs Raveesh Kumar has posted on January 28 that authorities have begun to prepare for evacuation of Indians which are affected by drastic outbreak of 2019-nCoV. Embassy of India in China is in close communication with  Chinese government and its officials to work out logistics and provide speedy relief to Indian nationals. On evacuation, all individuals will be quarantined for two weeks and arrangements are me for same. 

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Precautionary measures 

As per statement of Health Ministry, travel visories have been sent to joining countries including China to spre information about disease globally.  screening of passengers with travel history from China which was earlier only on seven airports has been extended to 13 more, taking  total to 20. According to press release by government, authorities have been using rmal scanners for faster screening. 

Besides a lab in Pune, four more labs have been reied for testing samples. Furrmore, ministry of shipping has also initiated screening at major ports. Till January 28, according to statement, 155 flights were screened including 33,552 passengers. Out of all, samples of 20 passengers have been tested in NIV Pune and all were negative. 

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