Kolkata: Covid-19 detection among 32 passengers who left for Dubai on Sunday and Monday sent alarm bells ringing among health experts because the infection was contracted in Kolkata within two days before the flight.
All leaflets have cleared the RT-PCR test, for swab samples collected within 48 hours before flight departure.
But they were still tested positively on PCR quickly carried out at the airport six hours before departure on Sunday and Monday.
Nine international leaflets were also tested positively on arrival on these two days.
From them, an Irish citizen who has taken the last direct flight to the city from London who now stands suspended.
Among others are two French citizens, two Sweden and others are Indians.
But it is a large number of Covid cases among the departing passengers who have made everyone worried.
On Sundays, 16 passengers, all towards Dubai, have been tested positively.
Six of them was to take Indigo flights while seven to take Dubai’s fly and three emirate airlines.
But for one passenger, everything is an Indian citizen.
The only exception is an English woman traveling with Indigo.
On Monday, 16 Flyers, all took Emirates flights to Dubai, were tested positively and could not leave.
Unlike most other countries that require a confirmation RT-PCR test, Dubai requires two RT-PCR tests before going up outside India to filter individuals who might have been contracted Covid recently.
Doctors say this proves that community transmission has begun at high speed in the city and people must limit the smell of their homes except absolutely necessary.
“People are converted from seronegative to seropositive at very fast speeds and 16 passengers who turn within 48 hours only prove it.
As a Covid-19 cardinal rule, travel activities must be restricted earliest to prevent further deployment,” said a viralist Rahul Jain.
After development, the airline was alert to the UAE again imposing a ban on flights from India as they had done in front of the second wave.
The emirate then acted quickly and firmly, stopped the return of people from India to the country to protect themselves from the Delta variant.
Omicron variants are said to be five times more transmitting.