{"id":380231,"date":"2020-10-23T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380231"},"modified":"2020-10-23T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:12:45","slug":"lab-at-chennai-airport-to-test-incoming-international-flyers-with-flu-like-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lab-at-chennai-airport-to-test-incoming-international-flyers-with-flu-like-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab at Chennai airport to test incoming international flyers with flu-like symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Covid-19 tests are likely to be made permanent for passengers arriving from abroad in the future at Chennai airport.<br \/>\nA lab to test passengers is being set up at the international arrival terminal and is likely to start functioning in two weeks.<br \/>\nAn official said, &#8220;RT-PCR testing is going to be a permanent feature for international travel.&#8221;<br \/>\nPassengers with flu-like symptoms will be tested at the airport lab as the existing system of staff from the state government&#8217;s health department collecting samples and testing passengers may not continue after pandemic restrictions are lifted.<br \/>\n&#8220;The lab is being set up because there is a perception that airports should have their own facilities as the tests on passengers either with symptoms or those who arrive without a negative certificate, may be here to stay for several months,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Covid-19 tests are likely to be made permanent for passengers arriving from abroad in the future at Chennai airport. A lab to test passengers is being set up at the international arrival terminal and is likely to start functioning in two weeks. An official said, &#8220;RT-PCR testing is going to be a permanent feature for international travel.&#8221; Passengers with flu-like symptoms will be tested at the airport lab as the existing system of staff from the state government&#8217;s health department collecting samples and testing passengers may not continue after pandemic restrictions are lifted. &#8220;The lab is being set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}