Assam: Medical Team Deployed at Jorhat Airport for Coronavirus Screening

Jorhat, February 8, 2020:

The Assam Health department has set up a counter at the Jorhat Airport in order to take the precautionary measures to keep the threat of Coronavirus away from the state.

On Saturday, the Assam Health department deployed a team of two physicians and four paramedics at the Jorhat Airport. According to a report by a local daily, a voluntary disclosure form for passengers coming from outside Assam, who may have returned from China or any other neighboring South-east Asian country, has been made available at the airport so that medical screening could be done immediately.

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The medical team has been equipped with infrared thermometer to check body temperature. An isolation ward has also been kept as standby at the Jorhat Medical College & Hospital (JMCH) for the ones who test coronavirus-like symptoms.

It may be mentioned here that more than 700 people have died so far due to coronavirus in China. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared the disease as “global health emergency”.

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The death toll in mainland China, reportedly, jumped by 86 to 722, and is poised to pass the 774 deaths recorded globally during the 2002-2003 pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), another coronavirus that jumped from animals to humans in China.

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