Covid +ve Thai, Indonesian tourists booked

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Salem/Erode:08.04.2020

Police in Erode and Salem have registered cases against foreign nationals from Thailand and Indonesia for flouting visa norms. The foreign delegates had arrived in India on tourist visas and had attended and conducted religious congregations.

Erode police have registered cases against six Thailand nationals who came to the city on March 11. Police said they spent time in three mosques till March 15.

Out of seven Thailand nationals who came to the city, one person died at Coimbatore government medical college on March 16 due to renal complications, police said On March 21, doctors in Erode confirmed two people as positive for Covid-19. Later, a few others who were in contact with the Thailand nationals also tested positive, police said. “They had attended religious meetings in three mosques,” a police officer said.

Police registered a case under various sections including 269, 270, 278 of IPC along with the Foreigner’s Act 1946 and the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act 1939.

“We haven’t arrested the six people as they are being treated for Covid-19 in IRT government hospital in Perundurai,” a police officer.

In Salem, police officials registered cases against 11 Indonesian nationals under the same sections for violating visa norms.