NEW DELHI: Five passengers and crew members who landed at Delhi Airport from the UK on Monday night tested positive for coronavirus.
The Air India flight was one of two scheduled flights to land in Delhi before the new restrictions on inbound flights from the UK were put in place from 12am.
In light of the new Covid-19 strain found in the UK, which is said to be a super spreader with claims to be 70% more transmittable, the Indian government has temporarily suspended all passenger flights from the UK.
Therefore, the Genestrings lab ordered that the last two flights scheduled to arrive in Delhi before the given deadline of 11.59pm on December 22 undergo mandatory RT-PCR tests at the airport. UK passengers would have to undergo an RT-PCR test at Delhi airport in view of the new strain of Covid.
The airport authority has not left any leaf unturned to guarantee the safety of more than 470 passengers traveling on these flights. GMR DIAL has arranged a separate waiting room so that no transmission range remains.
Passengers who came from the second of the two scheduled flights are currently in the testing phase.
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