We are alert and watchful at our end.
People who have arrived here
from the
UK in the last several days are
being
rigorously
traced and tested for slightest of COVID-like symptoms, Jain said. A team has been made and house-to-house tracing is
being done. they (
UK returnees) are
being advised self-isolation too, he added.
Delhi has fought difficult battles with COVID-19 and all efforts will be made to ensure that the gains made in the management of the pandemic are not reversed due to the new
situation in the
UK, Jain had said on Tuesday. Delhi
situation is
under
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Recently-Arrived UK Passengers Being Traced, Tested; Quarantine Facility At LNJP
All passengers arriving from the UK are being tested for Covid-19 at the Delhi airport, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said
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The Delhi government on Tuesday said people who have arrived here from the UK recently are being traced and tested, while an institutional quarantine facility is being set up for positive cases at the LNJP Hospital amid mounting concern over a new strain of the virus detected in that country.
All passengers arriving from the UK are being tested for Covid-19 at the Delhi airport, Health Minister Satyendar Jain told reporters.
11 passengers arriving from UK test COVID positive at Delhi airport
By PTI| Posted by Mansoor | Published: 23rd December 2020 8:20 pm IST
New Delhi: Eleven passengers on four flights from the UK were found positive for COVID-19 when tested on arrival at the Delhi airport, said Gauri Agarwal, founder of the Genestrings Diagnostic Center, on Wednesday.
Genestrings is handling coronavirus testing of all passengers at the Delhi airport.
In her statement, Agarwal said 50 passengers of the aforementioned four flights have been put under institutional quarantine.
As a new coronavirus strain has emerged in the UK, the government on Monday ordered that all passengers coming from there would be tested on arrival at the Indian airports.
People from UK Being Rigorously Traced; Situation Under Control in Delhi: Health Minister Jain
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said people who have arrived here from the UK are being rigorously traced and tested for any COVID-19-like symptoms. He asserted that the coronavirus situation in the city is under control with the positivity rate plummeting to below one per cent. Interacting with reporters, Jain said the suspension of flights to and from the United Kingdom was a prompt move by the Centre and will help in containing the spread of the new coronavirus strain detected in that country. We are alert and watchful at our end. People who have arrived here from the UK in the last several days are being rigorously traced and tested for slightest of COVID-like symptoms, Jain said.