Cabinet Secretary chairs high level review meeting on COVID19

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New Delhi : Union Cabinet Secretary on February 22, 2020, chaired a high level meeting to review the status, actions taken, and preparedness of States/UTs regarding management of Novel Coronavirus (COVID19) here.

Secretaries of Health and Family Welfare, Civil Aviation, Defence, Information & Broadcasting, DG AFMS, and representatives from External Affairs, Home Affairs, Bureau of Immigration, ITBP and Army were also attended the meeting.

After a detailed review, in addition to the universal screening as per earlier advisories, universal screening at airports is now being planned for flights from Kathmandu, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia, according to a PIB release. Also, in furtherance to the travel advisory issued earlier, citizens are advised to avoid all non-essential travel to Singapore.

As on date, 21,805 passengers have been brought under community surveillance. In addition, 3,97,152 flight passengers and 9,695 travellers at sea ports have been screened.