Bengaluru:
The initial set of passengers from Britain arrived in Bengaluru early this morning as India partly resumed air website traffic from that nation following a two-week suspension ending January 6.
With each and every flight from the United Kingdom reported to be carrying passengers to capacity, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhaklar had reviewed all arrangements for compulsory well being screening and testing on arrival to steer clear of chaos.
The minister had mentioned that all the flights have been coming in with 300 to 350 passengers.
On Sunday, the passengers who arrived at the city’s Kempegowda International Airport got RT-PCR tests for COVID-19, and their hands have been also stamped.
The stamp study “UK Passenger” and pointed out the date of arrival in indelible ink for quick identification.
As per guidelines issued by the centre to include the spread of a “more contagious” mutant UK strain of coronavirus, it is compulsory for all UK returnees to not only carry a adverse Covid test, but also get tested on arrival.
Those testing positive will have to have to stay in single-space institutional quarantine for 14 days as their samples are sent for genome sequencing to verify for the presence of the UK strain. If the mutant virus is detected, their contacts would also be isolated at government-authorized centres.
Those who test adverse can go dwelling, but they will have to strictly stay inside their residence for 14 days, as per the guidelines.
Visuals of orderly lines of passengers sustaining social distancing though getting screened and tested have been in sharp contrast to the chaos that unfolded at the Delhi international airport on Saturday, January 8.
Change of isolation guidelines for UK returnees arriving in Delhi, which includes 7-day institutional quarantine even for these who test adverse, and extended waiting time for Covid test outcomes led to a heated exchange involving airport employees and the passengers.
India resumed air travel with the UK on January 6, with airlines from each nations only permitted 15 flights each and every to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad for now.
Strict testing and tracing measures are getting taken to assure the UK strain does not enter the neighborhood by way of the passengers who may possibly be potentially infected.
India has 90 circumstances of COVID-19 triggered by the UK coronavirus strain. All circumstances with mutant strain have been detected in flyers from that nation and their contacts. They are all in single-space institutional quarantine and recovering.
The nation has a total of 1.04 crore Covid circumstances, 1.5 connected deaths and more than 1 crore recoveries.
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