New Delhi: Seventy-eight people including Afghan citizens, who were evacuated from Afghanistan after Kabul fell to the Taliban last month, on Tuesday dumped from the ITBP facility here after they complete the 14-day quarantine government to examine the spread of Coronavirus infection.
The group includes 53 people from Afghanistan (34 men, nine women and 10 children), and 25 Indians (18 men, five women and 12 children), said spokesman Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) Vivek Kumar Pandey.
They were handed over by medical certificates and red roses when they left the facility.
These people were taken to the Covid-19 quarantine facility located in the Southwest Chhawla Delhi area on August 24 after they landed here on the evacuation ship operated by the Indian Air Force.
Afghan citizens have been sent to the designated location in South Delhi while Indians are expected to go to their home, said a senior officer.
The facility still has 35 people, who returned from Afghanistan, under quarantine which included 24 Indians and the rest from Nepal.
The group is also expected to be repatriated in the same way on Wednesday, at the end of the 14 day quarantine period as a mandate under the existing Covid-19 medical protocol, the officer said.
The ITBP quarantine center was operated last year immediately after the outbreak of Covid-19 and had hosted more than 1,200 people including foreigners from at least eight countries until now.
The first batch of India and some foreigners who returned from Wuhan in China were also quarantined here last year.
ITBP is the strength of border guards under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and this is mainly assigned to maintain a long line of 3,488 km from actual control with China in addition to providing various roles in the country’s internal security area.