While Punjab grips with fear of a large spike of COVID cases every day, today’s incident will send more shockwaves to the state authorities. A special chattered international plane from Italy to Amritsar was carrying around 179 passengers. Out of them at least 125 passengers have been detected with COVID positive.
Out of the total of 179 passengers, 19 were children or infants so they were exempted from on-arrival RT-PCR testing, they said. The charter flight between Milan in Italy and Amritsar in Punjab was operated by Portuguese company EuroAtlantic Airways, they mentioned.
Since Italy is one of the “at-risk” countries according to the Union Health Ministry, all eligible passengers — 160 in this case — were tested for COVID-19 and 125 of them were found to be positive, they mentioned.
