Passengers suspected to have been exposed to Ebola virus arrive in Delhi airport.
All but one of the people who arrived in India since Monday night from Ebola-hit Liberia have tested negative for the virus. One person, who is suffering from a sore throat and fever, has been kept quarantined in Delhi. Altogether, 112 people from Liberia had returned to India since Monday night.
Following are the latest developments:
Airports at Delhi and Mumbai had been equipped to screen those arriving on the flights. Strong precautionary measures were in place. Aircraft were taken first to a remote bay and the passengers were screened at the step-ladder exit. Health authorities have stressed that these were precautionary measures.
A thermal scanner was used to determine whether any passenger has a fever. It was also checked if a passenger had come in contact with someone who has had Ebola Virus Disease or EVD. Such passengers were isolated and taken to hospital for further tests.
In Delhi, they were taken to a centre that airport authorities put up in Mahipalpur. In Mumbai, they were to be taken to the Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Care Centre and other designated civic-run hospitals.
The luggage of the passengers was also isolated and moved away.
Three flights carrying 27 people had landed in Delhi. Some of the passengers later flew to Mumbai.
Four flights carrying 85 people landed in Mumbai.
Four immigration counters were set up at the Delhi airport and two people from the airport health organisation manned a special desk. A quarantine facility was also set up.
If some passengers had come in contact with Ebola cases, but showed no symptoms, they were to be allowed to go home. But health officials were to monitor them for three weeks.
The passengers had been screened in at least three countries - Liberia, South Africa and United Arab Emirates or Ethiopia, where the flights halted - before they landed in India.
All the planes were to undergo a thorough disinfection procedure.
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