125 of Italy’s 179 passengers at Rajasansi’s Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport tested positive. The 11:20 a.m. arrival of the Air India flight was recorded. To comply with government requirements, passengers who tested positive for Covid were required to enter a hospital for quarantine. They caused a major uproar at the airport when they refused to enter government-run isolation facilities.
The passengers said they had been screened with an RT-PCR before boarding the plane. Passengers, upset with airport and health authorities, yelled anti-government slogans and demanded to be allowed to return home. Family members of the travellers also staged a demonstration outside the airport. Health officials agreed to allow them to quarantine at home under certain conditions after five hours of negotiation. The group of tourists split up for the night and headed back to their separate cities and villages.
On a trip from Italy to Amritsar, 125 passengers tested positive for Covid.
They stated that 19 of the total of 179 passengers were too young to be tested using RT-PCR and were thus excused from the procedure. They said that the charter flight YU-661 between Milan, Italy and Amritsar, Punjab was operated by the Portuguese company EuroAtlantic Airways. The administration of Amritsar Airport tweeted that they had taken all necessary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The state health professionals are currently caring for all 125 passengers who tested positive today. Airport officials say they will continue to monitor and advise the 35 individuals who tested negative. Many travellers complained that the test results sparked a commotion at the airport terminal once they were made public. Video recordings of passengers yelling at the cops were purportedly shared on social media.
The COVID-19-positive tourists refused admission to an isolation ward at any local hospital. They were persuaded by the health administration to check into the isolation ward of any Amritsar hospital. Dr. Amarjit Singh, the district assistant civil surgeon, has announced that all HIV-positive patients will be quarantined.
The Initial Occurrence
Two flights from Italy to Amritsar airport had a significant number of covid-19 positive passengers, according to a search by rajkotupdates. More than a quarter of the passengers, or 125, were found to have been infected with the COVID virus. Rajkotupdates. com reports that at Sri Guru Ram das International Airport, COVID was found aboard the charter flight from Milan to Amritsar. Patients with COVID were found to be positive in large numbers for the first time since the epidemic began.
Passengers fought hard against health officials as they attempted to transport them to isolation wards. The frustrated tourists were also suspicious of the reliability of the claims. There were a total of 179 people on board. The airliner, operated by SARC Aviation, was refuelling in Tbilisi its route from Verona to Rome to Amritsar. From the total of 160 passengers tested, 125 were found to have covid. Nineteen of them were infants or young children, thus they were exempt from testing. Despite their protests, the passengers who tested positive for COVID were sent to isolation units in their respective regions.
What Happened Next?
News: COVID exploded on an Italian airline, Rajkotupdates reports; 173 people on a Rome-Amritsar charter flight tested positive for the virus. Rajkotupdates.news reports that an Italian airliner was involved in a covid explosion. There were 210 people, and 173 were confirmed to have COVID based on reported results.
There were a total of 285 passengers. Hospitals in their home towns quarantined the 173 foreigners whose COVID tests came up positive. The remaining passengers did not be tested for COVID because they were either infants or youngsters.
There were about 90,000 new cases recorded in the United States today, a 65% rise over last week. There was a long queue of passengers waiting to leave the Amritsar airport, and images showed police officials struggling to keep the gathering under control. Many tourists who tested positive for Covid in Italy were perplexed by the results.
Measures taken by the Union Ministry of Health
The Union Health Ministry was alerted because to the unprecedented spike of COVID cases. According to the rules of the union health ministry, all passengers coming from countries deemed to be at risk must immediately undertake Covid 19 exams. Even if the results of a Covid-19 test come back negative, any immigrant from a high-risk country will still be required to observe a seven-day home quarantine.
To ensure everyone’s safety, the 173 infected passengers are being sent back to their home countries for hospital quarantine. Be extra careful now, and take all necessary precautions to ensure your health and safety through these trying times.
The Union Health Ministry had included Italy on a list of at-risk European countries. Lights from countries with a high disease risk should be shut off promptly, according to local health officials. After the catastrophe, the government and authorities attempted to alleviate and better contain the epidemic by restricting international travel.
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