The govt said still passengers found to be symptomatic during screening will be immediately isolated and taken to a medical facility.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Gadkari said that to minimize the impact of frontal and lateral collisions to the occupants seated in both front and rear compartments, it has been decided that 4 additional airbags be mandated in the M1 vehicle category.
The probe had been ordered after several of the passengers who returned from Italy had alleged that their Covid positive report was not correct as they had tested negative hours before boarding the flight.
Sunwing Airlines cancelled the return charter flight from Cancun that had been scheduled for Wednesday and Air Transat and Air Canada also both said they will refuse to carry the passengers.
There were 179 passengers on the Italy-Amritsar flight, said VK Seth, Airport Director.
143 have tested positive for coronavirus in addition to 66 other travellers already diagnosed with the infection.
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As many as 66 of the over 2,000 people on board the Cordelia cruise ship, which came to Goa from Mumbai, had tested positive for COVID-19, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on Monday.
The airport staff got into this unusual situation after the plane's rear tyre burst while landing at the airport.
The Civil Aviation Ministry has announced new guidelines for international travellers from 'at-risk' countries arriving at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and other airports.
Following the confirmation of cases of the new variant in other states of the country, the state government is ensuring strict vigil on the borders and is also emphasising on further improving the health facilities in rural and urban areas, the statement said.
The rule for a negative Covid report in the US also applies to passengers from India.
An Air India flight bound for the US returned back to Delhi after flying for more than 3 hours, due to a medical emergency onboard
The Omicron strain, first detected in South Africa, has been classified as a 'variant of concern' by the World Health Organization (WHO). The first cases of the Omicron variant in India have been confirmed in two individuals in Karnataka.
Omicron has raised alarms in India as six passengers who returned back from 11 high risk nations have tested positive for COVID-19. All airports have been alerted for the same.
The 'at-risk' nations (updated on November 30) are countries in Europe, including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel.
The Mumbai Airport operator to communicate to all domestic Airlines that they shall not board, ordinarily, any passenger for landing in Mumbai without RT-PCR test with negative result taken within 72 hours of departure, the directive said.
All international passengers must return a negative result to leave the Mumbai airport, and then undergo 14 days of home quarantine.
Four people who flew into Delhi from the Netherlands and the UK in the early hours of Wednesday have tested positive for COVID-19 and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to ascertain if they have the new variant, Omicron, sources said.
The B.1.1.529 Covid variant or Omicron, first detected in South Africa last week, was designated by the World Health Organisation as a 'variant of concern', the health body's top category for worrying coronavirus variants.
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