As per officials, the Chinese passenger "vomited", raising concerns among the fellow travellers and flight crew due to the coronavirus outbreak.
An Air India plane from Pune to New Delhi Friday was delayed by over four hours due to panic after a Chinese passenger fell ill during the flight. As per officials, the Chinese passenger “vomited”, raising concerns among the fellow travellers and flight crew due to the coronavirus outbreak. The epidemic has claimed 638 lives and has infected at least 31,000 people across the globe.
As per an Air India spokesperson Dhananjay Kumar the ‘unwell’ passenger was de-boarded and admitted to the hospital. The flight departed for Delhi Airport at about 12.11 pm. The Air India flight AI852 (Pune to Delhi) has a scheduled departure time of 7.40 am.
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“The flight from Pune to Delhi was delayed due to rumoured vomiting in the flight by a Chinese passenger raising concerns and panic over coronavirus. The passenger was deboarded and has been admitted to Naidu Hospital in Pune,” an official with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) which manages security of Indian airports said.
In the wake of Coronavirus outbreak, dozens of airlines from across the globe have suspended their operations to China.
In India, three confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported in Kerala. People who returned from China have been quarantined at hospitals in Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai among other places.
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