Punjab: 125 passengers of Italy-Amritsar flight test Covid positive on arrival

The international airport at Amritsar witnessed chaos on Thursday as a chartered flight from Rome landed with 179 passengers, of whom 125 tested positive for Covid-19.

While 13 of the passengers were from Amritsar, the biggest group of 26 was from Hoshiarpur in the state, 10 from Haryana and one each from Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.

The situation at the airport turned tense as a war of words ensued between the administration and the passengers, who said that all of them had produced negative Covid-19 reports before boarding the flight and that it was highly unlikely that so many of them had tested positive on arrival.