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Published on 09:15 PM, February 05, 2020
India opens Coronavirus screening centres along border with Bangladesh, Myanmar
A health desk is set up to screen travelers for signs of the coronavirus at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala, India, on January 31, 2020. File Photo: Reuters/Jayanta Dey
Star Online Report
Indian authorities have set up coronavirus screening and testing centres along the borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said today.
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the state governments have also jointly set up similar screening and testing counters at most of the airports of north-east India, according to a report of India-based news agency IANS published on an online news portal.
Screening and testing centres are now operational at the check-posts along India-Bangladesh borders with Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram, according to the report.
A medical team comprising doctors and health staff are conducting medical check-up since yesterday at the India-Myanmar border check-post at Zokhawthar in Mizoram’s Champhai district for the travellers across the borders based on their health status and travel history, said an official of Mizoram Health and Family Welfare Department.
Officials from the district administration are also posted in the border screening and testing centers, according to the report.
The north-east Indian states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880 km border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.
The Myanmar government too has been conducting medical screening of the people who are moving across the borders since January 27, the official said.
Manipur Health and Family Welfare Department has deployed medical officers along India-Myanmar border towns of Moreh and Behiang to screen all people -- both foreigners and Indians -- entering India after travelling from China or any other neighbouring countries, officials in Imphal said.
Two persons, who had returned to the state from China early January, have been kept under house quarantine in view of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, said officials in Aizawl, Mizoram.
They did not show any sign of being infected and also tested negative for the deadly virus, the officials said, adding that they were put under house quarantine as a precautionary measure.
Following the standard operating procedure (SOP) received from the Central government, a special screening, testing and checking counter with the help of the Assam government has been functioning at the Guwahati airport since last week, AAI Regional Executive Director (NER) Sanjeev Jindal told IANS.
The Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati is the only airport in north-east India from where the international flight operations take place for Singapore and Bhutan.
www.thedailystar.net/coronavirus-deadly-new-threat/news/india-opens-coronavirus-screening-centres-along-border-bangladesh-myanmar-1863907%3famp
India opens Coronavirus screening centres along border with Bangladesh, Myanmar
A health desk is set up to screen travelers for signs of the coronavirus at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala, India, on January 31, 2020. File Photo: Reuters/Jayanta Dey
Star Online Report
Indian authorities have set up coronavirus screening and testing centres along the borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said today.
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the state governments have also jointly set up similar screening and testing counters at most of the airports of north-east India, according to a report of India-based news agency IANS published on an online news portal.
Screening and testing centres are now operational at the check-posts along India-Bangladesh borders with Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram, according to the report.
A medical team comprising doctors and health staff are conducting medical check-up since yesterday at the India-Myanmar border check-post at Zokhawthar in Mizoram’s Champhai district for the travellers across the borders based on their health status and travel history, said an official of Mizoram Health and Family Welfare Department.
Officials from the district administration are also posted in the border screening and testing centers, according to the report.
The north-east Indian states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880 km border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.
The Myanmar government too has been conducting medical screening of the people who are moving across the borders since January 27, the official said.
Manipur Health and Family Welfare Department has deployed medical officers along India-Myanmar border towns of Moreh and Behiang to screen all people -- both foreigners and Indians -- entering India after travelling from China or any other neighbouring countries, officials in Imphal said.
Two persons, who had returned to the state from China early January, have been kept under house quarantine in view of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, said officials in Aizawl, Mizoram.
They did not show any sign of being infected and also tested negative for the deadly virus, the officials said, adding that they were put under house quarantine as a precautionary measure.
Following the standard operating procedure (SOP) received from the Central government, a special screening, testing and checking counter with the help of the Assam government has been functioning at the Guwahati airport since last week, AAI Regional Executive Director (NER) Sanjeev Jindal told IANS.
The Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati is the only airport in north-east India from where the international flight operations take place for Singapore and Bhutan.
www.thedailystar.net/coronavirus-deadly-new-threat/news/india-opens-coronavirus-screening-centres-along-border-bangladesh-myanmar-1863907%3famp
