5 travellers test +ve on arrival at B’luru airport

5 travellers test +ve on arrival at B’luru airport

Sunitha.Rao@timesgroup.com

Bengaluru:12.12.2021

In December, five of the 5,873 passengers who landed at Bengaluru from ‘at risk’ countries tested positive for Covid on arrival.

They are all at designated hospitals and their genomic sequencing reports are awaited. These include two girls, 17 and 18 years, who travelled from the United Kingdom and a middle-aged man from the UAE who tested positive on arrival since late Friday.

Prior to this, two men, one each from Germany and Sweden had tested positive on December 8. International passengers coming from ‘at risk’ countries who are on quarantine post arrival have been tracked by BBMP. “Four passengers have shown symptoms of Covid while in home quarantine. They too have been shifted to designated hospitals,” said Dr Balasundar AS, chief health officer, BBMP.

A 32-year-old German is currently being treated in a private hospital. “She travelled to Bengaluru on December 4 and was staying in a hotel. She showed symptoms three days later and tested positive. She is currently in a private hospital and her swab sample has been sent for genomic sequencing” said Dr Balasundar.

In another case, a 34-year old man who returned from South Africa on December 1 developed symptoms later. He tested positive on December 3 and his genomic sequencing report is awaited.

Though they had carried Covid negative certificate during their journey and tested negative in the on-arrival Covid test, they may have incubated the virus which has shown symptoms later, health officers said.

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