The state government will conduct Covid tests of 700 passengers and crew members of three Air India flights from London that arrived in Calcutta since November 30, after the mutated strain of coronavirus that was first detected in the UK, was found in the sample of one of the passengers, who had arrived in the city on December 20.
The government, as part of the preparedness, is setting up a separate facility at ID Hospital, Beleghata if more people are detected with the UK strain.
The 700 include 220 passengers and 12 crew members of the December 20 flight on which the passenger, a youth, had come to the city, said state health department officials.
