5 quarantined for spending night in Nairobi
Five Indian nationals were quarantined on their arrival at Mumbai airport on Tuesday. The reason: they were coming in from Nairobi.
Five Indian nationals were quarantined on their arrival at Mumbai airport on Tuesday. The reason: coming in from Nairobi, which has been declared a yellow fever zone by World Health Organisation (WHO), they were not carrying yellow fever vaccination certificates.
Arvind Kumar Hirani, 21, Halai Devsi, 40, Pratap Singh, 32, Sutar Manji, 30 and Varshani Jagdish Mawji, 22, flew in from Seychelles via Nairobi by a Kenyan Airlines flight on April 13. A delay en route, had led to them spending a night in a Nairobi hotel.
“We needed to be vaccinated for yellow fever as we spent a night in Nairobi. This situation wouldn’t have come up, had our flight from Seychelles not been delayed by
two hours,” said Arvind Hirani. “We missed the day’s only flight from Nairobi to Mumbai, and had to wait overnight for the next one. We were provided hotel accommodation, but no one told us about the need to get vaccinated. We learnt about it from the immigration officials in Mumbai.”
A visibly upset Pratap Singh said, “I was returning home to attend my sister’s marriage this week. Now, because of the airlines’ mistake, I don’t think I will be able to make it to her wedding.”
A senior official at Sahar airport’s yellow fever vaccine centre said that had the “passengers not stepped out of Nairobi airport, there would have been no need to quarantine them.” The five would be quarantined for six days.
Arvind Kumar Hirani, 21, Halai Devsi, 40, Pratap Singh, 32, Sutar Manji, 30 and Varshani Jagdish Mawji, 22, flew in from Seychelles via Nairobi by a Kenyan Airlines flight on April 13. A delay en route, had led to them spending a night in a Nairobi hotel.
“We needed to be vaccinated for yellow fever as we spent a night in Nairobi. This situation wouldn’t have come up, had our flight from Seychelles not been delayed by
two hours,” said Arvind Hirani. “We missed the day’s only flight from Nairobi to Mumbai, and had to wait overnight for the next one. We were provided hotel accommodation, but no one told us about the need to get vaccinated. We learnt about it from the immigration officials in Mumbai.”
A visibly upset Pratap Singh said, “I was returning home to attend my sister’s marriage this week. Now, because of the airlines’ mistake, I don’t think I will be able to make it to her wedding.”
A senior official at Sahar airport’s yellow fever vaccine centre said that had the “passengers not stepped out of Nairobi airport, there would have been no need to quarantine them.” The five would be quarantined for six days.