ERNAKULAM : Kerala will make quarantine overseen by the state compulsory for all rescued expats and has drawn attention to the centre to screen the returnees before they board the flights.
Kerala will be at the vanguard of the biggest influx of mass returnees from overseas as centre plans to evacuate stranded Indian expats in 65 flights from 7 May, likely to make it vulnerable to a rising tide of infections and testing the limits of its vaunted public health infrastructure. "We welcome our brothers from abroad.
But when people arrive, we cannot deflect from the aim of curbing the spread of infection. Chances of infections are very high in air travel.