Relief, joy as second batch of Wuhan evacuees leave quarantine

All 112 people who were quarantined for 14 days at the ITBP camp in Delhi tested negative for Covid-19. Praveen Khanna

Clinging to his mother, Minu, who is about one-and-a-half-years-old, looks annoyed. “The quarantine was difficult for him because he couldn't play that often outside and had to mostly stay indoors. He is happy to be leaving now,” his mother Ming Liang (32) said.

Minu is the youngest of 112 people who were quarantined for 14 days at the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp in Chawla, Delhi after being evacuated from China's Wuhan on February 27. All have tested negative for the virus in the two tests conducted on the day of their arrival and on the 14th day, officials said.

This is the second batch of evacuees to have left the facility after being quarantined. It had 36 foreign nationals from countries including Bangladesh and Maldives, and the remaining were Indian nationals. Earlier, a batch of 406 people evacuated from China was also quarantined at the facility between February 1-19.

Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Friday told the evacuees and staff at the facility that the government was committed to fighting the virus. “The Prime…