Their samples have been sent for further tests to a Pune laboratory, he said. Later the administration found that as many as 216 passengers could have come in contact with the eight positive passengers (including a crew member), and now we have decided to quarantine them institutionally following guidelines from the Punjab government, he said.
He also said that 10 passengers of the 216 are from Amritsar and they are being taken to quarantine centres from their houses today . They are being sent to a private hotel where they would complete their quarantine period as per the state government s guidelines, Sethi said.
He said that the rest of the passengers who are from different districts are also being taken from their houses and in this regard deputy commissioners and civil surgeons of these districts have been informed and this process is being done on war footing level .
13152 Airport authorities collect samples of passengers of flight AI-1190 arriving from UK, in the wake the new COVID-19 strain found in the country. PTI
Amritsar, December 24
As many as 216 people who arrived here from the UK in a December 22 flight will be institutionally quarantined as they might have come in contact with seven of their fellow passengers and a crew member who tested COVID-19 positive on arrival, health officials said on Thursday.
They are from different places, including Amritsar, and are being taken from their homes to institutional quarantine centres, they said.
The Air India flight from London had arrived at Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport on Tuesday with 250 passengers and 22 crew members, and eight people tested positive for the coronavirus.
Punjab: 216 people who arrived from UK to be institutionally quarantined
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Last Updated: Dec 24, 2020, 07:20 PM IST
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The health officials said that all of them had undergone the RT-PCR test on Tuesday and were found negative, except eight, but the step to institutionally quarantine the 216 people has been taken to ensure maximum safety as per Punjab government guidelines.
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AMRITSAR: As many as 216 people who arrived here from the UK in a December 22 flight will be institutionally quarantined as they might have come in contact with seven of their fellow passengers and a crew member who tested COVID-19 positive on arrival, health officials said on Thursday.