{"id":454294,"date":"2021-12-06T10:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454294"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:27:50","slug":"new-technology-to-test-flyers-at-bengaluru-airport-cuts-wait-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-technology-to-test-flyers-at-bengaluru-airport-cuts-wait-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New technology to test flyers at Bengaluru airport cuts wait time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Pushed to the edge on Wednesday following the government\u2019s revision of Covid-19 testing norms for incoming international passengers, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) authorities quickly streamlined the process to avoid undue hardship for passengers.<br \/>\nKIA has introduced CRISPR technology-based testing, where multiple flyers from \u2018atrisk\u2019 nations can be tested simultaneously. This comes after Wednesday\u2019s chaos, where flyers had to wait interminably to take the RT-PCR test on arrival after the mandatory testing rule for international returnees kicked in.<br \/>\nSources say the new technology was introduced on Thursday by Tata Medical and Diagnostics (MD) Ltd in association with Bangalore Airport International Ltd (BIAL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Pushed to the edge on Wednesday following the government\u2019s revision of Covid-19 testing norms for incoming international passengers, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) authorities quickly streamlined the process to avoid undue hardship for passengers. KIA has introduced CRISPR technology-based testing, where multiple flyers from \u2018atrisk\u2019 nations can be tested simultaneously. This comes after Wednesday\u2019s chaos, where flyers had to wait interminably to take the RT-PCR test on arrival after the mandatory testing rule for international returnees kicked in. Sources say the new technology was introduced on Thursday by Tata Medical and Diagnostics (MD) Ltd in association with Bangalore Airport International [&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-454294","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\/454294","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=454294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}