Karnataka begins testing passengers from UK for new coronavirus strain
The state government has started testing international airline arrivals from the United Kingdom in a bid to stop the possible transmission of a new mutated strain of the Sars-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid-19.
The Additional Chief Secretary Jawaid Akhtar told DH that the government was collecting the passenger manifests of all flights from the UK to Karnataka over the last 14 days, to track down the individuals.
“We have started testing 138 out of the 587 individuals who arrived on two flights on Monday. These are people who did not have an RT-PCR test done 72 hours prior to boarding the flights,” Akhtar explained.
