406 people back to India from China with negative reports of coronavirus

All 406 people, housed at quarantine facility in Delhi after being brought back from Wuhan in China, tested negative for coronavirus in the final test, PTI reported on Sunday.

They will be discharged in phased manner from Monday, the news agency reported officials as saying.

The final samples of all the people quarantined at



the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) facility were collected on Friday.

Their samples were tested at least twice earlier and were found to be negative.Union health minister Harsh Vardhan had said three days ago on February 13 that the clinical samples of the 654 evacuees at Manesar and ITBP camps had been tested and all of them were found to be negative.