16 Passengers Of IndiGo, 2 Other Carriers Test Positive For Coronavirus
Passengers and group are watching all protection precautions onboard flights (Document)
New Delhi / Bengaluru:
16 asymptomatic passengers on seven other flights, together with 13 who travelled via IndiGo, have examined sure for COVID-19 for the reason that resumption of home air products and services on Monday, consistent with airways knowledge.
Two of the 3 asymptomatic passengers who examined sure for the an infection had travelled via Spicejet whilst one took a flight of the Air India subsidiary Alliance Air.
The Karnataka govt, in the meantime, mentioned on Thursday it has asked the Civil Aviation ministry to scale back the choice of flights originating from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in view of the prime choice of COVID-19 instances within the state, hours after a minister mentioned it has “suspended” air shuttle from those states.
In quest of to explain his remark, Legislation and Parliamentary Affairs Minister JC Madhuswamy maintained that Karnataka has now not sought a ban on flights from the 5 states as reported in some sections of the media.
Karnataka has appealed to the Civil Aviation Ministry to take steps to reduce the air visitors to the state, with the “sacred purpose” that there might not be good enough quarantine amenities, if there’s a large turnout in a brief span of time, he mentioned in a press free up issued via the state knowledge division.
West Bengal, which allowed resumption of home air products and services from Thursday, and Maharashtra are some of the states who’ve asked the centre for restricted flight operations within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
3 passengers who travelled on Delhi-Jammu flight on Tuesday, six passengers on Bengaluru-Coimbatore flight, two passengers on Delhi-Coimbatore flight and one passenger on Bengaluru-Madurai flight, all on Wednesday, examined sure for coronavirus, the airline mentioned.
On Tuesday, IndiGo had mentioned passenger who travelled from Chennai to Coimbatore on Monday night examined sure for COVID-19. The passenger was once the primary to have examined sure after the home flight operations resumed within the nation.
The entire passengers who examined sure had seen all precautionary measures, together with dressed in face masks, face defend and gloves, like different travellers at the airplane, it mentioned.
“All our airplane are being continuously sanitized as a regular running process, and the airplane running those flights had been right away disinfected as according to protocol,” the airline added.
SpiceJet mentioned on Wednesday that two of its passengers who travelled from Ahmedabad to Guwahati by way of Delhi on Monday examined sure for coronavirus.
Air India had additionally mentioned on Wednesday passenger who was once on an Alliance Air flight from Delhi to Ludhiana examined sure and 41 other folks, together with 5 group individuals, have been quarantined.
