{"id":501745,"date":"2022-06-30T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501745"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T04:16:41","slug":"centre-asks-states-to-test-2-passengers-from-incoming-flights-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-asks-states-to-test-2-passengers-from-incoming-flights-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks states to test 2% passengers from incoming flights for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With India consistently reporting more than 10,000 Covid cases over the past few days, the Centre Wednesday asked states and Union Territories to ensure a random RT-PCR screening of about two per cent passengers in each incoming flight, and send all positive specimens for genomic sequencing.<\/p>\n<p>Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan issued the advisory through a letter to states and UTs, referring to the &#8216;Operational Guidelines for Revised Surveillance Strategy in context of COVID-19&#8217; issued by the Centre on June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Bhushan asked them to implement the revised strategy which focuses on early detection and timely management of suspected and confirmed cases, and the containment of outbreaks of new coronavirus variants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With India consistently reporting more than 10,000 Covid cases over the past few days, the Centre Wednesday asked states and Union Territories to ensure a random RT-PCR screening of about two per cent passengers in each incoming flight, and send all positive specimens for genomic sequencing. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan issued the advisory through a letter to states and UTs, referring to the &#8216;Operational Guidelines for Revised Surveillance Strategy in context of COVID-19&#8217; issued by the Centre on June 9. Bhushan asked them to implement the revised strategy which focuses on early detection and timely management of suspected and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501745","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}