5 FLYERS FOUND POSITIVE AT IGI ON FIRST DAY OF NEW TESTING NORMS

NEW DELHI: More than 3,000 passengers who arrived from the UK, South Africa, Brazil, West Asian countries and Europe, gave samples for RT-PCR testing at the Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) till Tuesday evening and five of them tested positive for the virus.

According to the standard operating procedure (SOP), passengers from these highrisk countries will have to get RT-PCR tests done at IGI before going to home quarantine.

The new rules were implemented on Monday midnight. Dr Gauri Agarwal, founder-director of Genestrings Diagnostics, which is conducting these tests at the airport, said between midnight and 6pm, over 3,000 samples were collected. “More flights are yet to land in Delhi from these five regions. The total number of samples is expected to touch 6,000 by the end of the day. All arriving flyers were sent to home quarantine and were informed about their results later,” she said. Agarwal said five passengers, from among those tested till 6pm, were found to be Covid-19 positive.