China adds new test for Indians after 23 test Covid +ve on flight to Wuhan
As many as 23 Covid-19 positive Indians, 19 of them asymptomatic, were on board a Vande Bharat Mission (VBM) flight that landed in the central Chinese city of Wuhan from New Delhi last Friday, Chinese health authorities said on Tuesday.
The flight registered the highest number of infected persons on an Indian rescue flight to China so far.
Asymptomatic carriers are those who are infected but do not show symptoms of the disease but could infect others.
The large number of cases on the flight – and the high incidence of the disease in India – seemed to have prompted the Chinese embassy in New Delhi to change pre-boarding Covid-19 testing rules for Indians coming to China on special flights from November 7 onwards.
