Mumbai Airport Scans Passengers from China, Hong Kong

Mumbai: Mumbai airport is thermal scanning all passengers from China and Hong Kong before they enter immigration, it said in a statement.

Thermal scanners use heat sensors and can spot people with high temperature levels.

A team is “conducting universal thermal screening for all passengers of flights coming directly from China and Hongkong. For other international arriving flights, only the self declared passengers are screened using thermal camera,” the airport operator said.