NEW DELHI 28 April 2020: The South Indian State of Kerala, which has the largest number of Indians in the Arabian Gulf, said on Monday that slightly more than 150,000 people belonging to the state had registered online globally for returning home.
They will be able to return as soon as the nation-wide lockdown to control the pandemic ends and international flights into India are resumed, according to the government’s Press Information Bureau in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala’s capital.
Meanwhile, India’s North-East region, comprising a contiguous cluster of eight states, is now free of any new cases of the new coronavirus, Covid-19, said Wam.
Dr Jitendra Singh, the Minister in charge of Development of North Eastern Region, DoNER, said on Monday that five North Eastern States are totally free of the coronavirus. These states are Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura.
Until Sunday night, three other states of the region have added no new cases during the normal period when people who are exposed to Coronavirus turn positive and require treatment for Covid-19.
States which fall into the second category – Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram – had a collective total of 19 people who had earlier become infected with the disease and are now well on the way to full recovery.
However, during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi by video conference on Monday, Chief Ministers of North Eastern states emphasised the need to seal the borders of these states with foreign countries so that there are no new infections from abroad. The North East region of India has borders with five countries.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Monday evening that India had so far recorded 28,380 Covid-19 infections of which 6,362 patients have been cured and discharged from hospitals. There have been 886 deaths as of Monday.
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