Over 103 Gujaratis returned from China till Saturday

This number does not include the number of Gujaratis (if any) among the 324 people who returned this morning from China in a special Air India (AI) flight to Delhi and kept in quarantine for two weeks in two separate camps there.

Another such flight had left for China today and was likely to return on Sunday with more Indians.

In-charge Deputy Collector of the facilitation center set up at the State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) here to help the Gujaratis living in Corona virus affected areas of China today said she has no information about the number of Gujaratis in the AI flight.

"We will include it in our numbers as and when we get any official information about it. So far our data was about those who have returned directly to Gujarat in other flights. Maximum 24 people from Mahesana district followed by 20 from Banaskantha and 10 each in Sabarkantha and Surat district have come back from China. Till January 29 evening, 13 of those living in China had returned to Gujarat but this number has gone up to 103 today," she said.

None of them had any symptoms of the deadly virus infection which has so far claimed over 100 lives in China, she added.

"Despite that a detailed medical screening of all such people is also done," she said.

 She said that most of the people whose families have contacted were students from Gujarat studying in China.

 "We are also receiving calls from the families of Such Gujarati people who were living in other parts of China rather than the most affected Wuhan area," she informed.

Earlier a special flight of Air India returned from Coronavirus hit Wuhan of China to New Delhi this morning with a total of 324 passengers, all of whom were Indians living there.

An official of the health department said that the Boeing 747 double deck jumbo aircraft of Air India landed at the Delhi Airport at 0720 hrs this morning.

The flight which had taken off from Delhi yesterday afternoon was also having a team of medics including five doctors of Ram Manohar Lohiya hospital and a para medical staff of Air India.

All those returned from China would be kept in two different camps in the national capital for two weeks for quarantine. As the symptoms of the deadly infection takes up to two weeks to show up. The woman passengers would be kept in Chhawla camp while the male would be kept at Manesar camp. It was not immediately clear as to how many of the passengers returned from the special flight were from Gujarat.

 A similar flight had left for China again today.