NEW DELHI: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said the city government will approach airport authorities here over a report that two Covid-positive flyers from the UK had slipped out from the Indira Gandhi International airport.
Amid mounting concern over a new strain of the virus detected in the UK, the Delhi government on Tuesday had said people who have arrived here recently from that country, are being traced and tested, while an institutional quarantine facility was being set up separately for positive cases at the LNJP Hospital.
At a press conference on Thursday, when asked about the report that two passengers from the UK, who had landed at the Delhi airport on Tuesday, had further travelled to Punjab and Andhra Pradesh, despite testing positive for Covid-19, Jain said, “I have also read about it in the newspaper today”. “Flight operations and security there is under the airport authorities...
But a person who has tested positive, should not have moved out,” Jain said. Asked, about the responsibility of the nodal officer for COVID-19 at the Delhi airport, the health minister said, “We will talk to airport authorities about it”. The Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) did not respond to the PTI’s request for a statement on this matter.