All British Airways passengers test negative for Covid at Delhi airport, says top exec of testing lab

All 199 passengers of British Airways, who arrived in the national capital on Tuesday morning, have tested negative for Covid-19, Chetan Kohli, COO, Genestrings Diagnostic Labs, has said.

Over 250 people out of 470 flyers from the UK, which arrived in Delhi on Air India and British Airways flights, underwent RT-PCR test at the Delhi airport, others are yet to be tested for Covid-19 in view of new coronavirus strain found in the UK.

Earlier today, five out of 266 passengers from the UK tested positive for Covid-19 on their arrival in New Delhi. Their samples have been sent to the National Centre for Disease Control for research and they have been sent to care centres, a nodal officer for Covid-19 has said.