Six Passengers From 'At-Risk' Countries Tested Covid Positive: Maharashtra

Wednesday, 1 December 2021newsdesk

Six international passengers arriving from 'at risk' countries - which include those that have confirmed cases of the highly transmissible Omicron strain - have tested Covid positive, the Maharashtra Health Department said Wednesday morning.

New Delhi, 01 December 2021

As per news report of NDTV, All six are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing, the Health Department said. Contact tracing for all six passengers is underway. Three of the six have been traced to the Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivali and Meera-Bhayandar areas, with the fourth traced to Pune. Two others - arrivals from Nigeria - have been traced to Pimpri-Chinchwad. Starting today, airports in India have enforced strict quarantine and testing rules for passengers from 'at risk' countries, amid growing concern over the entry and spread of the Omicron Covid strain in India.

Source - NDTV