Diplomats, ITBP men brought back from Afghanistan, quarantined

Thirty one Indians, including diplomats and ITBP personnel, arrived at Delhi airport in a special flight from Afghanistan on Monday (March 30), and were sent to a quarantine facility set up in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.

The Kam Air flight from Kabul landed at 2:40 pm at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

“There are 31 passengers on the special flight from Kabul that includes four diplomats, 26 ITBP men and a civilian,” said a senior official. Their medical samples will be taken to check coronavirus symptoms, the said.

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The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is deployed to guard the main Indian embassy complex in Afghanistans capital city of Kabul and four consulates in Herat, Kandhar, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif.

The passengers were screened with temperature guns by ITBP personnel at the tarmac and were sent to the quarantine facility in the Chhawla area of southwest Delhi. The centre already has 481 Indians who were recently rescued from COVID-19 affected Rome in Italy.

(With inputs from agencies)