New Delhi: At least eight passengers have been tested positive for COVID-19 in three days of domestic flight operations, which resumed from Monday after remaining suspended for over two months in light of the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
An asymptomatic passenger onboard IndiGo's 7E 7214 Wednesday flight from Bengaluru to Madurai tested positive for Covid-19 during mandatory testing on the same day at a quarantine facility in Madurai, the airline said on Thursday.
"An asymptomatic passenger who travelled on Indigo 6E 7214 from Bangalore to to Madurai on May 17 2020 was discovered to be covid-19 positive during the mandatory testing at the Quarantine facility in Madurai on 27th May," the airline said in a statement.
According to IndiGo, the passenger had observed all precautionary measures including wearing face mask, face shield and gloves like other passengers on the aircraft.
"All our aircraft are regularly sanitized as a standard operating procedure, and the aircraft operating the flights were immediately disinfected as per protocol," IndiGo said.
The airline said that the operating crew has been home quarantined for 14 days and we are in the process of notifying other passengers as per the government guidelines to ensure safety of our passengers and staff.
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On Monday (the first day of resumption of domestic flight services across India), a passenger travelling aboard an Indigo flight from Chennai to Coimbatore was found to be Covid-19 positive.
On the same day, two passengers who travelled from Ahmedabad to Guwahati on the SpiceJet flight SG 8152 were found to be infected with the virus.
On May 26, another passenger on a Delhi-Air India flight too had tested positive for the Covid-19. According to the airline spokesman, a total of 36 passengers on the flight along with 4 crew members were put in institutional quarantine following the Punjab government rules.
Earlier, three passengers who landed in Jammu were also tested positive for the Covid-19. The passengers flew on May 25, but they were tested positive a day later and are now in institutional quarantine.
