Elaborate precautionary arrangements have been put in place at the Mumbai Airport here to screen the 112 stranded Indians, who are expected to arrive on Tuesday by various flights from and around the Ebola-hit Liberia, authorities said on Monday.

Six passengers travelling from Ebola-hit Liberia were taken for Ebola test after arriving at Delhi airport on Tuesday morning. The passengers were taken to a government hospital to determine whether they have Ebola.

In the first flight, 20 Indian passengers who arrived on board flight SA 284 from Liberia via Johannesburg, were cleared by an Airport Health Organisation team after screening under supervision of the Deputy Director General (IH), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. None of them had any symptoms or history of contact with the Ebola virus disease (EVD), airport officials said.

Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), which is the airport operator at Mumbai has kept a 'follow me' vehicle available by Apron Control at Gate 5 to escort the government ambulance from Gate no 5 to the bus boarding gate. One MIAL ambulance along with one doctor and one paramedic was kept on standby on airside. One more MIAL ambulance was kept on standby at Cargo.

As a precautionary measure, the flight was disinfected by the APHO team after all passengers disembarked, airline sources told dna.

The second lot of 46 Indians evacuated from Liberia arrived by flight ET 610 at 5:41 am. They too were not detected with any symptoms.

In addition to this, 19 passengers who had come from Nigeria were also screened by the APHO team for EVD. All of them were cleared as none of them had any symptoms or history of contact with ebola infected patients, airport officials said.

Many more flights are expected to reach Mumbai through the course of the day. Sources said that several doctors and paramedical staff have been employed at the city airport to scan the incoming passengers from Liberia.

As two of the seven special flights carrying passengers from Liberia landed in Mumbai, both Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Airport health officials have geared up to corner a suspected Ebola virus-infected patient. BMC will be soon be getting a list of contact numbers of these passengers, who will be followed up in the next 21 days.

Epidemiology head at BMC, Dr Mangala Gomare said that so far no Ebola suspects have been detected. "Since the morning, two flights have landed. There was a thorough check at the airport. We didn't feel it necessary to quarantine them."

Dr Gomare further added, "Detailed history and contact numbers of these passengers were taken. My team will follow up with them in the next 21 days in case they develop the symptoms later and need quarantining."

"As part of the tentative plan, the aircraft will be first taken to a remote bay and all passengers will be screened at the step-ladder exit after the arrival of flights at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA)," Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) said here.

Besides, while the passengers without any symptoms will be cleared and shifted to terminal for immigration and customs clearance, those coming from Liberia with symptoms suggestive of EVD, will be directly shifted to designated hospital in ambulance from the bay, it said.

According to MIAL, Ethiopian Airline, Emirates, Etihad, Qatar, Jet and South African Airways are flying these passengers to Mumbai. Some of these passengers will first arrive in Delhi and then come to Mumbai by domestic airlines flight, MIAL said.

Mial also said the baggage of the flights need to be kept separate by the concerned airline in their custody, adding disinfection of the flight will be carried out once all passengers would be deboarded.

Flights will be allowed to board next passengers only after thirty minutes of disinfection, it added.