MANGALURU: A 27-year-old man, who arrived Mangaluru Ghana’s International Airport (MIA), a high-risk nation, tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus during a rapid RT-PCR test on Thursday.
thereafter the deputy commissioner KV Rajendra Had an emergency meeting with the airport chief officer Nirav Shah, Airport Health Officer, District Surveillance Officer, District Nodal Officer for COVID-19, and Head of Apollo Lab at MIA on Friday.
The passenger was shifted to the isolation ward of Wenlock District Hospital on Thursday evening and is being treated there. The patient is asymptomatic. The 27 passengers sitting in three rows ahead of him and three rows behind him have been treated as primary contacts, and have undergone rapid RT-PCR tests, and have been quarantined. Their swabs have been sent to Bengaluru for genome sequencing.
7 students from Kerala test positive
The district health department has declared a private nursing college as a containment zone after seven students tested positive Dr Ashok Hu, District Nodal Officer for COVID-19. All the students studying in the first year had arrived with RT-PCR negative certificates, and were put in isolation. Of the 43 samples collected on the seventh day after their arrival, seven students tested positive.
thereafter the deputy commissioner KV Rajendra Had an emergency meeting with the airport chief officer Nirav Shah, Airport Health Officer, District Surveillance Officer, District Nodal Officer for COVID-19, and Head of Apollo Lab at MIA on Friday.
The passenger was shifted to the isolation ward of Wenlock District Hospital on Thursday evening and is being treated there. The patient is asymptomatic. The 27 passengers sitting in three rows ahead of him and three rows behind him have been treated as primary contacts, and have undergone rapid RT-PCR tests, and have been quarantined. Their swabs have been sent to Bengaluru for genome sequencing.
7 students from Kerala test positive
The district health department has declared a private nursing college as a containment zone after seven students tested positive Dr Ashok Hu, District Nodal Officer for COVID-19. All the students studying in the first year had arrived with RT-PCR negative certificates, and were put in isolation. Of the 43 samples collected on the seventh day after their arrival, seven students tested positive.
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