The evacuees will be placed under quarantine for at least 14 days at a medical facility that has been installed in the airforce base following which they will be allowed to travel to their respective states.
On Monday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami had conveyed the urgent meeting at the Chief Secretariat during which he reviewed the preventive measures and apparatus put in place to tackle the virus.
The six recent cases aren't new to the state as last month, the state had reported with three cases of Coronavirus making Kerala the first Indian state to get affected with the virus.
The deadliest epidemic had resulted in a decrease in oil prices as the global demand for the oil has been hitting low due to the indefinite closures of the companies, factories, and all the channels of transports.
The Kerala government has declared a holiday of three days for all the educational institutions in the Pathanamthitta district as part of containing the spread of the epidemic.
The minister said that the state government has enhanced and increased the Coronavirus testing in all the airports of the state. The screening has been done for all the passengers who are arriving at the airports.
The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine said that 96,729 passengers who arrived in Chennai, Madurai, Trichy, and Coimbatore airports have gone through the screening so far.
