Gandhinagar: The facilitation center set up at the State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) here to help the Gujaratis living in Corona virus affected areas of China today said that so far it has received calls from 196 families of such people from across the state.

In-charge Deputy Collector of the center Trupti Vyas said that till yesterday evening 13 of those living in China had returned to Gujarat and non of them had any symptoms of the deadly virus infection which has so far claimed over 100 lives in that country.

‘Despite that a detailed medical screening of such people is also done,’ she said.

She said that most of the 196 people whose families have contacted were students from Gujarat studying in China.
‘We are also receiving calls from the families of Such Gujarati people who were living in other parts of China rather than the most affected Wuhan area,’ She informed.

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