Thirty seven passengers out of 979, who travelled from the UK from December 9 till the midnight of December 22, have tested positive for Covid-19. The state government awaits reports from Pune s National Institute of Virology for confirmation of the mutant strain among the Covid positive passengers. A senior official attached to the Directorate of Health Services said all the 37 passengers, along with about a dozen persons who had come in contact with the UK in Goa, have been placed in an institutional quarantine facility, the Employees State Insurance hospital, located in South Goa. Testing and contact tracing of all the 979 passengers is almost complete. The patients as well as the persons who they came in contact with, have been admitted to institutional quarantine as a precautionary measure, the official said.
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37 UK Returnees Test Covid-19 Positive in Goa, Placed Under Institutional Quarantine
For Representation. Passengers arriving from United Kingdom fill in forms with their travel details at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, on December 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool/Representative image)
The official said that nearly all the 979 passengers, who had arrived in Goa in the days before the flight ban came into place, were NRIs returning to their native homes in the coastal state for Christmas festivities.
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Thirty-seven passengers out of 979, who travelled from the UK from December 9 till the midnight of December 22, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Goa. The state government awaits reports from Pune s National Institute of Virology for confirmation of the mutant strain among the Covid-19 positive passengers.
37 UK returnees test corona positive in Goa
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Panaji, Dec 29 : Thirty seven passengers out of 979, who travelled from the UK from December 9 till the midnight of December 22, have tested positive for Covid-19. The state government awaits reports from Pune s National Institute of Virology for confirmation of the mutant strain among the Covid positive passengers.
Goa: 37 UK returnees test Corona positive
Goa: 37 UK returnees test Corona positive
Last Updated: Tue, Dec 29th, 2020, 20:44:51hrs
Panaji: Thirty seven passengers out of 979, who travelled from the UK from December 9 till the midnight of December 22, have tested positive for Covid-19. The state government awaits reports from Pune s National Institute of Virology for confirmation of the mutant strain among the Covid positive passengers.
A senior official attached to the Directorate of Health Services said all the 37 passengers, along with about a dozen persons who had come in contact with the UK in Goa, have been placed in an institutional quarantine facility, the Employees State Insurance hospital, located in South Goa.
Arunachal Pradesh: Deputy CM Chowna Mein visits drug de-addiction centre at Lathao
The Deputy CM advised patients to follow the drug de-addiction activities seriously to lead a healthy life, away from the clutches of drug abuse.
| 28 Dec 2020 4:11 PM GMT
Namsai (Arunachal Pradesh): Arunachal Pradesh Deputy-Chief Minister Chowna Mein had visited the drug de-addiction-cum-rehabilitation centre at Lathao in Namsai district.
Deputy CM Mein, who had visited the centre at Lathao, 17km from Namsai along with planning and investment commissioner P.S. Lokhande, had interacted with patients, who are undergoing treatment.
Mein had advised the patients to strongly resolve to leave the habit of drug addiction behind and to take the treatment seriously at the centre to free themselves from the clutches of drug abuse.