Yesterday, 63 Tajik citizens, who were quarantined in the Kharangon medical sanatorium of war and labor veterans in Varzob district, were discharged home, reports the Tajik Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population.
Of these, 46 are students, 17 employees of Somon Air and the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the government of Tajikistan, who accompanied students during their evacuation from the Chinese city of Wuhan.
“During this period the persons, who were in quarantine, were supervised by doctors. Their temperature was regularly measured,” the Deputy Chief Physician of the City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Turakhon Sharifzoda noted.
“They did not show symptoms of flu-like disease. Following 14 days of quarantine, they were all discharged home,” Sharifzoda said.
On February 11, 46 Tajik students living in Wuhan were evacuated by Somon Air.
According to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population, from February 1 through February 24, 1,148 citizens, who arrived in Tajikistan from China, were quarantined in the country’s infectious disease hospitals.
Of these, as of February 26, 955 people were discharged home and 193 people are still in quarantine.