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The office of national airline Air India was sealed in Delhi on Tuesday after one of the staff members tested positive for Covid-19 coronavirus disease.
“Airlines House has been sealed for Tuesday and Wednesday,” the PTI news agency said, quoting an official.
The official said the employee was diagnosed with Covid-19 on May 7, through the RT-PCR test, and tested positive Monday night.
The employee first had a fever that decreased with the help of medication, but then the employee began to have a sore throat and respiratory symptoms. He was tested on Sunday and then sent to the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital in Delhi.
“However, RML doctors prescribed medication and advised him to monitor any change in condition and recommended quarantine at home,” the official said.
Five Air India pilots had previously tested positive for Covid-19. But in the second round of tests, his results were negative.
The results of the second round of testing came on Monday night.
The Mumbai-based pilots had operated cargo flights to China before April 20 and had been isolated in their homes for 14 days.
However, two other employees, a technician and a tug driver, from an Air India subsidiary again tested positive. “The airline is in contact with employees,” said an official.
As part of the government’s ‘Vande Bharat’ mission to repatriate stranded Indian nationals from different countries during the Covid-19 blockade, Air India will operate 64 flights between May 7 and 14. About 15,000 stranded Indians are expected to return from 12 countries through the mission.
India has been under closure since March 25 to curb the spread of the virus, which has infected more than 70,000 people and has killed some 2,290 people in the country so far.
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