A plane with 179 passengers landed on Wednesday last week at Amritsar airport in the state of Punjab in India.
Several of the passengers were to turn out to have a “little surprise”.
It writes several Indian media, including The Times of India and The Hindu, which is respectively the largest and second largest English-language daily newspaper in India.
Claims he was infected in the test queue
The plane, a charter plane from the Portuguese company EuroAtlantic, arrived from Italy and landed at Amritsar airport around 13.30 local time.
125 tested positive
Because Italy is considered a risk country by the Indian authorities, 160 of the passengers had to test for covid when the plane landed.
The remaining 19 were under five years of age, and therefore exempt from the test requirement.
– A total of 125 passengers tested positive, and were handed over to the authorities according to the current guidelines, says airport director Shri VK Seth to The Hindu.
– Was wanted for coronatest
This means that 78 percent of the adult passengers, or about four out of five passengers, tested positive on arrival.
The superior at Amritsar, Charanjit Singh, tells the English-language daily newspaper The Indian Express that there are instructions from the authorities not to allow home isolation for international passengers who test positive.
However, not all passengers should have found themselves in it.
Chaotic states
In photos to be taken at the airport on Wednesday, the situation appears chaotic. One can see large accumulations of people who do not wear masks. One man appears to be gesturing furiously as he holds up papers.
Born horror creature: – Looks like a human
According to the news agency Jam Press, the passengers have refused to go into isolation. The Indian Express claims that the mood was tense, as the passengers said that they had negative covid tests before boarding the plane and that it was unlikely that so many now tested positive.
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Among other things, they spoke to Gurinder Kaur, who is the wife of one of the passengers.
– They were negative for covid-19 when they boarded the plane. How could they have been positive during an eight-hour flight? It was mandatory to deliver negative covid tests that were not older than 72 hours before boarding the aircraft in Italy. This is impossible, she tells the newspaper.
Escaped from isolation
The management at Amritsar Airport that they have “passenger safety as their main focus”, according to Jam Press.
Alarms about mysterious brain disease
Chief Physician Charanjit Singh was presented with the passengers’ allegations. He denies that there is anything wrong with the sleeve:
– We tested all the passengers and there were many who tested negative. There is no conspiracy, he told The Indian Express.
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In the chaos, however, 13 of the passengers managed to sneak away from isolation, according to BBC.
Nine of them escaped from the airport, while four others fled from a local hospital, a representative of the city authorities, Sherjang Singh, told BBC Punjabi.
“Fooled the health personnel”
It is unclear how the first nine passengers managed to escape from the airport, but the hospital management informs the Indian TV channel NDTV that the four who ran away from the hospital “cheated the health personnel”.
Died the day after horror diagnosis
Police have said they are reviewing all 13, and that they have begun the process of canceling their passports.
“If they do not return within the morning twig, we will publish pictures of them in the newspaper and register cases on them,” Amritsar’s Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khehra told NDTV.
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On Friday, another plane landed from Italy, also full of passengers who tested positive for corona on arrival.
173 tested positive
Here, 173 of the 285 passengers received positive test results, according to BBC.
On Thursday last week, Italy reached a new infection record with almost 220,000 infected, while India reported more than 100,000 cases on Friday, and according to the BBC, experts believe that omicrons are causing the increase.
Alice (21) died in an ambulance crash
Amritsar is located in Punjab, one of the Indian states that has reintroduced measures in the fight against covid infection. On Tuesday last week, the state introduced a temporary night curfew, and closed schools and colleges.
All the passengers who tested positive from Friday’s flight have been sent to isolation centers in their own home districts, local health authorities inform the BBC.
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