Bengaluru: Thirty-five international passengers arriving at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) were tested positively on arrival in December.
They include 34 of the ‘risky countries’.
Relatively, five international passengers have been tested positively on arrival in November.
In December, 15,385 international leaflets, including 12,913 from ‘risky countries’, underwent Covid-19 testing on landing in KIA, according to data with the Department of Health and Family Welfare.
However, the level of participants among the passengers from ‘risky countries’ has been closer to 0.3%.
Incidentally, all of these tourists arrived with a negative Covid-19 certificate no more than 72 hours.
In most days, there are two to five passengers from ‘AT-Risk State’ spinning-positive, when tested on arrival.
“On December 17 alone, there were eight cases like that and were not available on December 21.
However, the first case of a covid positive person from ‘non-risk countries’ was seen on Tuesday.
All samples were sent for genome sequencing.
Some reports Passengers are still waiting for, “officers said.
On December 17, two British passengers tested positive on arrival and were hospitalized for 10 days to stop at the airport when they tried to take a flight back to England.
Even though the passengers have been tested negatively for Covid, their genome sequencing reports have not arrived.
After a lot of confusion, they were allowed to travel only after BBMP officers accessed their reports from the government lab, which said they were infected with the Delta variant and not Omicron.
So far, Karnataka has seen 19 cases of omicron where six are international passengers.
This includes one person from South Africa, who has traveled to Bengaluru in November.
However, 34 international passengers tested positively on arrival not including those who turned positively later during the house quarantine.
There are several international passenger cases from testing ‘at-risk’ positive positive for viruses during quarantine periods, but the exact amount cannot be ascertained immediately.
The government, however, has no plans to hand over international passenger stamps that arrive in the state.
“We plan to start the quarantine watch application,” said D Randeep, Health Commissioner, BBMP.
In accordance with the protocol, international leaflets must follow the quarantine of a mandatory house for seven days and undergo a repeat test on day 8.
If tested negatively, they must follow the period of self-monitoring for the next seven days.
35 of the 15.3k Flyers int’l tested covid + ve in KIA in December
