An Air India flight carrying 324 Indian nationals,
most of them students, from China's coronavirus-hit Hubei province
landed in the Indian capital early Saturday, a spokesman for the
Ministry of External Affairs said.
The Indians evacuated from Hubei have been quarantined in a facility
in the outskirts of New Delhi prepared by the Indian Army. They will
be monitored by a team of doctors for any sign of infection, the army
said in a statement.
They are expected to remain in quarantine for an estimated two weeks,
but will remain under surveillance by local health authorities once
they return home.
Another flight will be sent soon to evacuate remaining Indian
citizens from Hubei province, MEA spokesman Raveesh Kumar said.
India has so far reported one case of the coronavirus. The female
student, who was studying in Hubei province, is currently in
isolation in a hospital in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
More than 800 people are under observation across India for possible
infection.
Indian nationals are transported in a bus out of the Indira Gandhi International Airport following their evacuation from the Chinese city of Wuhan, in New Delhi