Over a million screened for Coronavirus at airports, checkposts in UP

Following the coronavirus outbreak in 88 countries, more than a million travellers have so far been screened at the airports and at the Indo-Nepal border checkposts in Uttar Pradesh.

According to the UP directorate of health services, some 1.09 million travellers had been screened at the state border checkposts, while more than 12,000 travellers had been screened at the airports for coronavirus.

Till date, 3,014 travellers from corona-affected countries had been identified and tracked by the different district surveillance units, and all had been placed under watch.

Meanwhile, 657 travellers have been placed under home isolation, of which six symptomatic cases have been admitted at various hospitals in UP and Delhi. Their condition is stated to be stable.