Five Passengers, Crew Onboard London-Delhi Flight Test COVID-19 Positive

Five passengers and one crew member onboard a London-Delhi flight on Monday night tested positive for the novel coronavirus. They have been sent to Sardar Patel Covid Centre in Chattarpur.

A total of 250 passengers who arrived last night and have undergone the mandatory RT-PCR test at the airport. While 5 tested positive, rest have tested negative for Covid-19.

As many as 470 passengers from the UK have landed Indira Gandhi International Airport till now in two flights.

India on Monday announced that it has temporarily banned flights from the UK to the country after the emergence of a new and highly infectious strain of the coronavirus in Britain. The suspension of flights from the UK will come into effect from December 22 midnight and will continue till December 31.