India is tumultuous! 13 passengers on a flight from Italy diagnosed with covid escape from the detention area
On January 7, the BBC news agency reported that Indian officials face chaos when at least 13 of the 125 passengers on one flight with test results for COVID-19 Upon arrival at the airport in Amritsar in Punjab state in northern India. On the afternoon of January 5 have escaped from the detention area
Of these, nine fled the airport and four fled the hospital. The passengers who tested positive for the coronavirus were among 160 passengers traveling on chartered planes from Milan, Italy to India. Of these, 19 children and infants were exempt from testing for coronavirus.
Television footage showed several ambulances lined up in front of the airport to take passengers infected with the coronavirus to hospital. which officials said All infected passengers were taken to Guru Nanakthep Hospital for treatment.
It is unclear how the four infected passengers escaped from the airport. But hospital officials told NDTV that nine of the passengers who were taken to the hospital had deceived officials into their escape.
The deputy police commander in Amritsar revealed that Initially, the passports of passengers infected with the coronavirus who had fled the scene had already been cancelled. if they do not return in the morning We will publish their photographs in the newspaper and take further action.
The chaos came as India reported 117,100 new coronavirus cases on the same day, the biggest daily increase since. From last June of India Meanwhile, another 302 people have died amid omikron that has become the dominant strain to replace the delta strain that is now prevalent in India’s major cities.
As a result, India’s cumulative death toll from the coronavirus rose to 483,178 and the total number of infections reached 35.23 million.