Amid Omicron fears, 6 flyers from ‘at-risk’ countries admitted in Delhi

New Delhi Six people who flew into Delhi from’at- threat’ countries, including the UK and the Netherlands, on Wednesday have been admitted to the Lok Nayak Hospital, news agency PTI reported Four breakouts forming from Amsterdam and London and carrying passengers landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport between 12 night and 6 am. Of these passengers, four have tested positive,”PTI quoted a source as saying. Three cases travelled on a flight from Amsterdam, the fourth travelled on a flight from London. Two further trippers who tested negative but have Covid-like symptoms have been brought to the sanitarium.

Their samples have been transferred to the National Centre for Disease Control for genome sequencing to ascertain if they’ve the new variant, Omicron. According to the Centre, the countries designated as”at- threat”are European countries, including the UK, and South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Israel Trippers from these”at- threat” countries are following fresh measures on appearance in India from Tuesday night.

Under the new morals, RT-PCR tests are obligatory for passengers arriving from the”at- threat” countries and they will be allowed to leave the field only after the results come The government’s revised guidelines for transnational passengers came into effect moment. The new rules have been issued in view of the new SARS-Cov-2 variant, which has been designated as a’variant of concern (VOC)’by the World HealthOrganisation.On the first day of operation of the Guidelines for International Trippers issued by the Centre as public health response measures for control and operation of the recently reported variant of coronavirus, which has been designated as a’variant of concern’by WHO, six passengers were reported to be Covid positive,”the ministry said.

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