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The mass fever screening system automatically adjusts and adapts to the surrounding ambient temperature without any human intervention.

The Central Government has given a mass fever screening system to the Hyderabad airport to enhance the efficacy of the screening process. The new thermal scanner is capable of scanning, detecting and tracking ill persons with elevated body temperature.

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport of Hyderabad has issued a press note on Sunday saying that the new system automatically adapts to the surrounding ambient temperature without any human intervention.

The system has intuitive user interface and dual display with day camera and infrared. The scanner makes the detection of passengers with elevated temperatures easy and simplified. The system only requires minimized human handling.

The ministry of health has provided this system to the airport with the help of Asian Development Bank. This state of art thermal scanner system has been funded by the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

CEO of Hyderabad International Airport had thanked the health ministry for installing the mass fever scanning system at the airport and said that this would make the work of health officials much easier who work round the clock at the airport.

The new top end mass fever scanner will detect the passenger with higher body temperature without disturbing the passenger movement and the throughput.

The Rajiv Gandhi international Airport continues to ferry passengers and handle relief flights under the Vande Bharat mission.

All the International arrival passengers at the airport have to undergo mandatory health screening to identify if they are symptomatic to the coronavirus. If they are found symptomatic to the virus, the passengers will be shifted to 7 days of institutional quarantine at the medical care facility provided by the airport authorities.

Hyderabad International airport has handled around 40,000 International passengers arriving to India during the COVID-19 pandemic since May 2020.

Recently, Indian government has issued fresh guidelines for International passengers arriving to India and these guidelines would be into force from August 8.

However, it is unclear if this mass fever scanning system will be installed at other airports of India too. As of now, the system would be tested for its efficacy in Hyderabad International Airport.

India’s coronavirus case toll has crossed 1 lakh mark and the number of coronavirus cases in Telangana has crossed 60,000 mark and 47,000 people have recovered from the deadly virus. The death toll in the state has reached to 540.

By Gayatri Yellayi