Two Covid-positive passengers from UK go missing at Delhi airport, one reaches Ludhiana, other Andhra

While the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) with regard to travellers from the United Kingdom — following the detection of a new, more transmissible, strain of the novel coronavirus there — five Covid-positive flyers from the UK went untraceable after landing at the Delhi airport on Tuesday.

While three of them were traced by Tuesday night and admitted to Lok Nayak hospital in the capital, one managed to reach Ludhiana while another reached Andhra Pradesh, before they were brought back on Wednesday, The Indian Express has learnt.

According to sources, a 46-year-old man from Amritsar’s Pandori village, who was among those who tested positive, managed to leave the Delhi airport unnoticed and reached Ludhiana, where he checked himself into a private hospital.