6 'high risk' Ebola suspects quarantined at Delhi airport

September 01, 2014 21:12

Six people deemed "high risk" Ebola suspects were today admitted to a quarantine facility at the Delhi airport, health ministry said today.

The suspects were among 181 passengers who arrived in India from the affected western African countries. As of today, the ministry said, as many as 816 passengers were being tracked by authorities under the integrated disease surveillance programme.

These passengers are those who carried certain risk because of suspicion that they might have come in touch with Ebola victims and are being monitored to ensure that they are attended to in case they develop symptoms of the dangerous disease.

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