All passegers from Bengaluru to be screened at Ranchi airport

All passengers travelling to Ranchi from Bengaluru, including those who have been fully-vaccinated, will be screened for symptoms of Covid-19 upon arrival at the Birsa Munda Airport, officials said on Friday, admitting that the state was taking extra precaution after two cases of infection caused by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus surfaced in Karnataka.

The director of Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi, Vinod Sharma, said additional manpower was deployed at the arrival gate of the airport to ensure no passenger enters the city without proper screening for Covid-19 symptoms. “Fully-vaccinated passengers will also be screened, but they will not have to produce a negative RT PCR test report as of now,” he said.