Iran Press/Iran News: The parents of the students who many of them from Kashmir have made appeals to the government to bring them back as Iran battles the coronavirus scare, Iran Press reported, quoting PTI.
The foreign minister had earlier said that the screening process of Indian nationals stranded in Iran has started and follow up arrangements are being discussed with Iranian authorities to bring them back.
“Efforts underway for the return of Indian pilgrims in Qom, Iran. The screening process has started & followed up arrangements are being discussed with Iranian authorities. This is a top priority and Embassy team is fully engaged on this,” Jaishankar had said on Twitter replying to NCP chief Sharad Pawar tweet.
Iran is among the countries worst-hit by the Coronavirus outbreak.
A special flight from Iran had arrived at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport early on Saturday morning with swab samples of 110 Indians. The samples were sent to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to check if the people are infected with the virus.
To ensure that the Indians were brought back from Iran are disease-free, India has been making arrangements to test the passengers stranded in Iran in order to clear them in batches.
New Delhi has sent a team of doctors to Iran for screening and has established a clinic at Qom, where 40 Indian nationals are stranded.
Iranian Embassy has also assured that Indian citizens with no symptoms of the virus will be transferred to India and those whose medical test results are positive will be hospitalized in one of the advanced special medical centers designated by Iran’s Ministry of Health.
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