Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said he will approach airport authorities over the report.
New Delhi:
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said the city government will approach airport authorities over a report that two COVID-positive flyers from the UK had slipped out from the airport.
Amid mounting concern over a new strain of the virus detected in UK, the Delhi government on Tuesday had said people who have arrived here recently from that country, are being traced and tested, while an institutional quarantine facility was being set up separately for positive cases at the LNJP Hospital.
At a press conference, asked about the report that two passengers from the UK, who had landed at Delhi airport on Tuesday, had further travelled to Punjab and Andhra Pradesh, despite testing positive for COVID-19, Mr Jain said, I have also read about it in the newspaper today .