Mumbai: No cases of Ebola affected passengers have been found in the first two flights which arrived here at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) from Liberia.
According to CSIA authorities, the flights are carrying Indians evacuated from Liberia, one of the four countries in West Africa affected by Ebola virus.
According to Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), Ethiopian Airline, Emirates, Etihad, Qatar, Jet and South African Airways are flying these passengers to Mumbai.
In the first flight SA 284, which arrived here at 0005 hrs from Liberia via Johannesburg, as many as 20 Indian nationals on board were cleared by the APHO team after screening under supervision of DDG (IH), MOHFW as none of them were having any symptoms or history of contact with EVD case.
According to MIAL, as a precautionary measure after disembarkation of all passengers complete flight was disinfected by the APHO team. The flights were allowed to board next passengers only after thirty minutes of disinfection.
Whereas, the second flight ET 610, which arrived here at 05:41am, 46 Indians passengers were cleared by the APHO team. The Airport authorities informed that besides these 66 passengers, 19 passengers who had come from Nigeria were also screened by APHO team for EVD.
While three flights have been diverted via Delhi, the remaining four are reaching Mumbai directly at different times on Tuesday.
Elaborate precautionary arrangements were put in place at the Mumbai airport and Delhi airport to screen 112 stranded Indians as many of them were suspected to have been infected by Ebola virus.
Meanwhile, six persons who arrived at Delhi airport today from and around Liberia, were quarantined for tests.
The people, including two women and a child, who arrived in Delhi have been taken to a designated hospital where they will be monitored for any symptoms of the virus and tests will be conducted, officials said.