New Delhi: In the midst of a surge in Covid-19 cases in the city, Health Minister Delhi Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said many international travelers, who had been tested negatively at the airport, were testing positive a few days and infecting their family members during the period.
“Cases have increased due to international flights.
Even during the previous wave, the case rose with the flight that came,” Minister said to reporters.
Delhi on Wednesday recording 238 cases of omicron.
There were 165 cases of new variants the day before.
The National Capital on Tuesday registered a massive surge in the Covid-19 daily with 496 new cases, the highest since June 4, while the level of participants also rose to 0.89 percent along with one death.
“There are many people who are testing negatives at the airport and they are allowed to go home.
The district authorities relate to them.
After reaching the house, they were tested again and they came out positively.
In the process, they also infected their family members,” Jain told reporters.
According to the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health on November 30 for international travelers, if people who come from ‘at-risk’ negatively inequent at the airport, they should follow quarantine at home for a week.
They were tested again on the eighth day of their arrival and if they tested negatively, they had to monitor their health for the next seven days.
“However, if such tourists test positively, their samples must be sent for genome testing on the Insacog Laboratory network.
They will be managed in separate insulation facilities and treated according to the defined standard protocol including contact contacts …” These contacts case- The positive case must be stored under the institutional quarantine or in the quarantine of a house that is closely monitored by the state government in question in accordance with the Laid Down Protocol, “Country Guidelines.
Jain said the Omicron Coronavirus variant was very contagious and indicated that it could be the reason behind it.
Surge The recent infection.
The minister insists that Delhi is fully prepared to face the Covid-19 situation.
“Many cases are international travelers and those who have to travel elsewhere.
If they test positive here, they are isolated.
“Until now, what we see is that patients do not need oxygen for care and are easily cured,” he said.
He urged people to follow Covid’s appropriate behavior.
After the increase in the case, the Chairman of the Delhi Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday stated ‘Yellow Warning’ where schools, colleges, cinemas and fitness centers will remain closed.
Shops that deal with not important items will be open with a strange base, and the Metro train and the bus will run with 50 percent of the seating capacity in the city.
The yellow warning is imposed when the covid-19 peposititivity level remains above 0.50% for two consecutive days.
“Cases have increased but there has been no increased consumption of oxygen or the use of ventilators.
Most patients are healed without hospitalization because they have small or asymptomatic symptoms,” he said during online briefing.
The chairman of the minister convinced Delhies that the government was ten times more prepared than before to overcome the increasing cases.
Kejriwal, however, said it was not profitable that people visited the market and mall without masks and appealed to them to follow the appropriate behavior of Covid.