New Delhi: Ten Indians, including women, are stranded in Wuhan city, the epicentre of Coronavirus outbreak in China.
A girl from Andhra Pradesh, Annem Jyothi, even made an emotional appeal in a video to evacuate her from Wuhan. She was supposed to be flown back with the first batch of Indians but was left behind after suspicion of being infected.
During the first rescue mission by the Air India, six people were excluded as their body temperatures were found to be high. Four people were exempted in the second mission also for the same reason.
Of the 645 people evacuated from Wuhan so far in two Air India flights, five were shifted to the military hospital at Cantonment area in Delhi as they were suffering from cold and cough. One of them tested negative for the virus, while the results of the other four are awaited.
Around 2,815 people are under observation in the country.
The Centre has set up a task force to monitor the situation arising out of the health emergency with representatives from the Ministries of Health, Home, Civil Aviation and Women and Child Development, said G Kishan Reddy, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, on Monday.
Reddy assured all Indians, who want to return from China will be evacuated.
"Whoever wants to come back to India, they should get in touch with our embassy," he said.
The Health Ministry on Monday updated its travel advisory and asked people to refrain from travelling to China in view of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in its Hubei province. It also stated that travellers returning from the neighbouring country could be quarantined.
115 Keralites in quarantine at Delhi camps
About 115 Keralites, who returned from China, have been put up at the camps of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) headquarters in th Chhawla area of Delhi and Manesar in Haryana.
Test results confirmed that 406 quarantined people at the ITBP camp were not infected by the virus.
Death toll shoots up
The death toll in China due to coronavirus infection reached 361. A 44-year-old man who arrived in the Philippines from Wuhan died on Saturday. He is the first probable casualty of the disease outside China.
Outside China, Hong Kong and Macau, other countries with confirmed cases include the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Japan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Canada, the United States, United Arab Emirates, Australia, France and Germany.
Novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from common cold to acute respiratory syndromes.
It likely emerged in Hubei province of China and has since spread to several countries, including India where three positive cases have been reported from the southern state of Kerala.
