Panic among AI staff as 13 Dubai returnees test +ve

AMRITSAR: The Air India staff, who handled some people who were stranded in Dubai due to lockdown and had returned on May 13 through a special Air India flight under Vande Bharat Mission, are in a state of panic after 13 Dubai-returnees were tested positive for Covid-19.

The Air India staff is stressed over unavailability of PPE kits. Total 178 Punjabis had returned by the special flight which had landed at Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport in Amritsar. Of these, four were tested positive in Kapurthala, three in Amritsar, and two each in Jalandhar, SBS Nagar and Hoshiarpur. Sixty-five employees of Air India work at the airport and 25 of them had received and handled the Dubai-returnees. HTC