Mumbai airport facilitates 220,000 RT-PCR tests in 6 months
Mumbai airport has facilitated 220,000 RT-PCR tests in the six months since it launched the testing facility at the airport.
“Since its launch in September, the airport has witnessed a surge in passengers taking the RT-PCR tests at the airport. CSMIA registered over 80923 tests undertaken in February 2021 as compared to approximately 1776 tests in September 2020. Of over 2,20,000 tests conducted at the airport in the period from September 2020 to February 2021, CSMIA has recorded a little over 1480 results as positive,” the airport operator Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) said in a statement.
The airport had originally introduced the testing facility for arriving passengers in line with the norms of the government; the facility enabled passengers to submit a test sample at the counters at the airport and receive their report in 8 hours.
