CHENNAI : Tamil Nadu Minister Ma Subramanian, on Thursday, said that thirteen passengers who had arrived from abroad tested positive for Covid-19 and that their RT-PCR samples had been sent to to Bengaluru for genomic sequencing analysis.
These thirteen passengers came to the state from 'at risk' and 'non-risk' countries. The minister for health and family welfare said 9,012 people have so far arrived from 'at risk' countries of which 11 have tested Covid-19 positive while 33,112 people arrived from 'non-risk' countries, of which two have tested positive. "Of the 13, one has been asymptomatic and is under home isolation.