Coronavirus outbreak: Home Secy Ajay Bhalla reviews status of screening of people coming to India

Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla yesterday reviewed the status of screening of people coming to India from neighboring countries in view of the coronavirus threat.

Home Secretary held a video conference with Chief Secretaries, Additional Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police and Additional DGPs of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Punjab, besides Secretary Border Management and Directors General of Border Security Force and Sashastra Seema



Bal.

The states informed that regular screening is being done by doctors at various transit points and the community in border areas has been sensitized in respect of precautions to be taken to avoid getting infected by the virus, through Gram Sabhas.

The Home Secretary urged all the officials to ensure that round the clock deployment of doctors, with requisite testing kits and other medical supplies, be done so that a hundred per cent screening is done without fail.