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Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has managed to locate 98 of the 204 people who landed at the city’s airport from Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. Of the 98 flyers, the Covid tests were conducted on 96. The whereabouts of the remaining 106 flyers (52%) are still unknown.
According to NMC data, two lists of 204 returnees from these countries were received from the Immigration Office on December 24 and 25.
An NMC official told TOI: “The passport of these brochures mentions Nagpur in the address. The lists had contact numbers but no full addresses. Our teams called all the numbers to find out that 131 fliers were from the city. The remaining 73 are residents of other places. We have sent their names to the respective collection offices, ”he said.
The NMC has not received any response from the collection offices and does not know if the fliers were tracked and tested, the official said.
Out of a total of 131 city flyers, 96 were tested. Five of them tested positive.
The NMC official added: “We exempted two children, ages one and two, from the tests because their mothers tested negative.”
The city’s remaining 33 fliers cannot be traced, according to NMC officials. “Their numbers are off or not used. We have written to the police stations to locate these people. They will be tested as soon as their location is known, ”said the official.
Municipal Commissioner Radhakrishnan B had appointed the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) which developed a special ward and admitted patients suspected of a new variant of the Covid-19 virus that had emerged in the UK.
Three more city residents who returned from the UK tested positive and were admitted to the GMCH special ward as patients suspected of the new strain of the virus that emerged from the UK. But their names were not on the list received by the NMC.
The names of a man, his wife and their son were on the Janjgir list in the Bilaspur district. The man and son tested positive while the wife tested negative. Still, NMC tracked them down and admitted them to the GMCH special room.
A suspected patient on his own revealed to the NMC about his travel history to the UK when he tested positive.
The NMC with the help of GMCH and IGGMCH sent swab samples from all positive patients to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, for genome sequencing.
The names of 24 more citizens who returned from these particular countries in the past nine days were also not on the lists sent out by the Immigration Office.
Under a system developed by Radhakrishnan, Additional Municipal Commissioner Sanjay Nipane and Medical Officer Dr. Sanjay Chilkar, a pledge is being made from all flyers if they have visited these countries in the last three weeks. All 24 fliers were tracked in this system and admitted to quarantine centers.
According to data from the civic body, of 24 flyers, 11 tested negative and were kept in quarantine centers for two weeks. They were discharged in the last two days. The remaining people will be tested. In case of negative report, they will be allowed to leave after one week.
