Reportedly raising concerns about the lives of indians including students from kerala, stranded in china following the coronavirus outbreak, chief minister pinarayi vijayan has written a letter to prime minister narendra modi, asking him to take measures to evacuate the marooned indians immediately. Meanwhile this is the second time pinarayi vijayan is writing a letter in this regard to the Centre.
Furthermore in the letter addressed to prime minister narendra modi, pinarayi vijayan has asked to evacuate indians stranded at wuhan of Hubei Province, which is the epicentre of the virus outbreak, by charting a special flight. pinarayi vijayan said in the letter “It seems that the ground situation in wuhan has worsened and we have information from the relatives of kerala students studying at various universities there that the situation is grave. It might be appropriate to consider operating a special flight to wuhan or a nearby functional airport and airlift the indian nationals stranded there to bring them back to India”.
According to the students in wuhan, there are 46 indian students stranded in wuhan university alone. About 20 of them hail from Kerala. Apart from wuhan it is reported that indians are stranded in Yichang area. Moreover the chief minister has also offered the Centre medical assistance from the state if required. The cm wrote in the letter “On behalf of the state of kerala, I would like to offer assistance of medical professionals from our side in case the indians being evacuated from wuhan are to be medically attended to". Apparently when the deadly Nipah virus outbreak happened in kerala for the second time in 2019, the state’s health system efficiently managed to prevent its spread to just one affected person with zero casualties.
