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Air India has partially sealed its Centaur hotel in Delhi near the airport to disinfect it after a crew member tested positive for Covid-19 at a temporary facility there, authorities said according to PTI.
Air India owns another Centaur hotel in Srinagar.
Last week, five Air India pilots and a technician and a driver from the airline’s engineering wing tested positive for Covid-19 in Mumbai.
All pilots operate the Boeing 787 fleet and had flown to China before April 20.
The technician and driver from Air India Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) working for Reliance in his hangar at the Mumbai airport tested positive after performing the swab test on May 7.
In early April, one of Air India’s cabin crew on one of the evacuation flights between Mumbai and Newark in the United States had tested positive for Covid-19.
Last week, Air India started a major evacuation program called Vande Bharat to bring stranded Indians from the Maldives and Bangladesh and West Asian states like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia in the first phase of the exercise.
The government will operate 149 flights from 31 countries, including the United States, Australia and France, during the second phase of the evacuation starting May 16.
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