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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has decided to screen passengers from Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia too, after new COVID-19 cases were reported from these countries since Saturday. Earlier, the officials had been screening passengers from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan. Meanwhile, a media bulletin issued by the Directorate of Public Health on Sunday said, “Till date, 63,769 passengers have been screened at airports in Chennai, Tiruchy, Madurai and Coimbatore. Among them, 2,429 passengers are under home quarantine for 28 days.”Till now, 47 samples were taken from passengers and sent for testing at King Institute of Preventive Medicine in Guindy, and the National Institute of Virology in Pune. The health status of all the passengers under observation at homes are stable, the bulletin added..