Mangaluru: A 27-year-old man who arrived at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) from Ghana, a high-risk country, was tested positive for the SARS-COV-2 virus, during the RT-PCR test that was fast on Thursday.
After this, Deputy Commissioner K V Rajendra held an emergency meeting with officers of the Head of NIRAV Shah Airport, Airport Health Officers, District Surveillance Officers, District Nodal Officers for Covid-19, and Apollo Lab Head in Mia on Friday.
Passengers shifted to the isolation ward at Wenlock District Hospital on Thursday night, and treated there.
Patients do not show symptoms.
27 passengers sat in front of three lines in front of him, and the three lines behind him have been treated as the main contact, and they have been made to undergo a fast RT-PCR test, and have been quarantined.
Their swabs have been sent to Bengaluru for genome sequencing.
7 Students from Kerala Positivethe Test The District Health Department has stated that private nursing colleges as detention zones, after seven students were tested positively, said Dr.
Ashok H, District Nodal Officer for Covid-19.
All students who study in the first year have arrived with a negative certificate of RT-PCR, and isolated.
Seven students tested positively from 43 samples collected on the seventh day after their arrival.