A young Indian woman, has appealed to Indian authorities to get her back to India post the Coronavirus outbreak in China. She and five others were left behind after the second group also flew back into India.
She has now released a video seeking the government’s help to fly them back home from Wuhan, China’s epicentre for coronavirus. Annem Jyothi has been identified as a native of Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh and works with a leading Indian technological company in China.
The six Indians were not allowed by Chinese authorities to board the special Air India flight, which flew out of Wuhan early on Saturday with 324 passengers.
She and the others were left behind on suspicion of infection and slight fever. In her video she claims the doctors aboard the special flight that brought back 324 Indians told her she would be allowed on the next flight, but she was not allowed to board that either.
She said she is ready to undergo further tests if required.
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“My colleagues (58 members) and I were supposed to take the first flight out of Wuhan to go home. But two of us had high body temperatures… we were stopped from taking the first flight. We were told you can take the next one,” she said.
“(But) in the afternoon we got a phone call and were told you can’t even take the second flight because you have fever. The Chinese (authorities) haven’t confirmed or denied we have the virus, but we are ready to prove we are healthy,” she added.
She also confirmed that her temperature is stable now and has requested the Indian government to bring them all back home.
The first batch of non-infected Indians arrived in India on January 31 and were immediately taken to the quarantine centres like the one in Manesar, Haryana.
Both flights were operated by the same crew and included five doctors from Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, who had been given express orders to leave behind anyone who displayed symptoms, including an elevated body temperature.
The coronavirus outbreak, for which the World Health Organisation (WHO), last week declared a global health emergency, has killed over 360 people in China.
In India there are three confirmed cases of the virus, all in Kerala. Apart from this, over 1,700 others are under home surveillance in the southern state.