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

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

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Eight coronavirus samples had so far been tested positive in UP, while the result of 93 samples was awaited by health authorities.

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
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.

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