With both the Karnataka government and the Centre announcing a set of guidelines each for international fliers, the authorities at the Bengaluru airport and the passengers found themselves in the middle of a chaos from Tuesday midnight.
In an email communication to The Indian Express, the airport authorities said it is abiding by the new guidelines from Wednesday.
Officials informed around 1,600 international passengers arrived in eight flights since Tuesday midnight and of them, as many as 1,191 were from the at-risk countries. Meanwhile, the remaining 409 were from other nations or domestic flyers who had flown in from outside the country to other airports in India and then reached Bengaluru airport.