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Coronavirus: Second flight lands in Delhi with 323 Indians, 7 Maldivians Two Indians, both from Kerala, have been tested positive for the virus

Coronavirus: Second flight lands in Delhi with 323 Indians, 7 Maldivians Two Indians, both from Kerala, have been tested positive for the virus

Medics screen Indian nationals after they were brought by an Air India aircraft from China's coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan, at the airport in New Delhi, Sunday, February 2, 2020.
Medics screen Indian nationals after they were brought by an Air India aircraft from China's coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan, at the airport in New Delhi, Sunday, February 2, 2020. PTI
TI , 2.02.20, New Delhi:A second Air India flight carrying 323 Indians and seven Maldivians from Wuhan in China landed at Delhi airport on Sunday morning.

In the first flight on early Saturday, 324 Indians were evacuated and were admitted to the two quarantine facilities set up by the army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITPB), though none of them have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to officials.

Wuhan is the epicentre of outbreak of novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 300 people in China.

Two Indians, both from Kerala, have been tested positive for novel coronavirus.

Due to the outbreak, IndiGo has suspended all three flights between India and China. Air India has suspended its Delhi-Shanghai flight and curtailed the flight operations on the Delhi-Hong Kong route.

An Air India spokesperson said at 9.45am, "323 passengers and seven Maldivians were there in the second special flight from Wuhan, which landed at Delhi airport just now."

Five doctors from the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital, who were onboard the first flight, were also present in the second flight, the spokesperson said.

Out of the 324 people that have been evacuated through first Air India flight, 56, 53 and 42 are from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, respectively.

Air India has done such evacuations earlier also from countries such as Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait and Nepal.

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