MUMBAI: Up to 1,688 passengers have arrived at Mumbai International Airport from the UK and other countries since midnight on Monday and 745 of them were quarantined in the city, a civic official said on Wednesday.
In the wake of the detection of a new coronavirus variant in the UK, a new Standard Operating Procedure has been issued to deal with passengers arriving from Europe and the Middle East.
It could not be determined if any of these 745 passengers had symptoms of Covid-19.
About 2,000 passengers were expected to land at Mumbai airport in the past two days, but only 1,688 had landed as of Wednesday afternoon, an official with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
Up to 745 of them were placed in institutional quarantine in Mumbai, he said.
BMC teams at the airport are exempting some categories of passengers from quarantine such as pregnant women or those traveling to attend the last rites of their relatives, the official said. So far, two passengers have been exempted.
On Tuesday, 590 passengers arrived in Mumbai on three flights from the UK. Of these, 187 were from Mumbai, 167 from the rest of Maharashtra and 236 were from other states.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner IS Chahal announced on Monday that all passengers arriving from the UK, other European countries and the Middle East will be required to remain in institutional quarantine for at least seven days.
The Union government said on Monday that all flights between the UK and India will be suspended from December 23 to December 31.
In the wake of the detection of a new coronavirus variant in the UK, a new Standard Operating Procedure has been issued to deal with passengers arriving from Europe and the Middle East.
It could not be determined if any of these 745 passengers had symptoms of Covid-19.
About 2,000 passengers were expected to land at Mumbai airport in the past two days, but only 1,688 had landed as of Wednesday afternoon, an official with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
Up to 745 of them were placed in institutional quarantine in Mumbai, he said.
BMC teams at the airport are exempting some categories of passengers from quarantine such as pregnant women or those traveling to attend the last rites of their relatives, the official said. So far, two passengers have been exempted.
On Tuesday, 590 passengers arrived in Mumbai on three flights from the UK. Of these, 187 were from Mumbai, 167 from the rest of Maharashtra and 236 were from other states.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner IS Chahal announced on Monday that all passengers arriving from the UK, other European countries and the Middle East will be required to remain in institutional quarantine for at least seven days.
The Union government said on Monday that all flights between the UK and India will be suspended from December 23 to December 31.
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