Over 15 lakh passengers have been traced & out of them over 200 passengers have been detected as Covid positive. Owing to the sudden COVID surge globally, Centre is tracing all the airports to ensure that no new variant enters the country.
So far, over 200 flyers have tested positive for coronavirus and genome sequencing of the samples has also found BF.7 variant, which is behind the massive rise in cases in China.
Speaking about the same, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, keeping in view the spread of Covid fourth wave in the world, we're tracing every airport.
So far 8,700 flights have been traced. Over 15 lakh passengers have been traced & out of them over 200 passengers have been detected as Covid positive.