The government said passengers should have obtained the negative test report 72 hours prior to departure
BENGALURU: The state government on Wednesday made it mandatory for international passengers coming to Bengaluru and Mangaluru from any country to furnish a Covid-19 negative certificate or to undergo a RT-PCR test on arrival.
The move follows reports about a new virus strain in the United Kingdom and some European countries. The government said passengers should have obtained the negative test report 72 hours prior to departure.
Earlier, the government had announced this rule would apply only to those coming from or transited through airports in the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands. However, with reports of a few international passengers turning positive, the government did not want to take chances and decided to screen all passengers from any country.
11 travellers from UK tested positive for Covid at Delhi airport in 2 days
December 23, 2020 Over 950 passengers arrived from London in four flights at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi during the last two days, and 11 of them tested positive for Covid-19, according to Gauri Agarwal, founder and director of Genestrings Diagnostic Centre, which carries out onsite Covid-19 testing at the airport.
According to a Genestrings statement, all the inbound passengers were subjected to the RT-PCR tests, irrespective of any existing reports or exemptions.
The 11 Covid-19 positive samples were stored in cold storage and sent to the National Centre for Disease Control for genome sequencing. “We do not know any of these positive are infected with the new UK strain,” the statement said. As per the information available, 50 passengers travelled in these flights were also quarantined as they were occupying seats close to those who tested positive.
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