35 people more evacuees from Afghanistan discharged Covid centre

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Thirty-five people, including 11 Nepal nationals, who were evacuated from Afghanistan after the Taliban captured Kabul last month were discharged from an ITBP facility in Delhi on Thursday after 14 days in quarantine.

With this, 113 people brought from Afghanistan to the Indian Tibetan Border Police facility for the mandated institutional quarantine have been discharged, said ITBP spokesperson Vivek Kumar Pandey.

The quarantine to check the spread of Covid is mandated by the government for those who arrive in the country from abroad. “The group that was discharged includes 24 Indians and 11 citizens from Nepal, the spokesperson said.