Mangaluru: Twenty out of the 177 stranded persons, who were evacuated from Dubai, the repatriation exercise to return home stranded Indian expats overseas, have tested positive for COVID-19.
The first repatriation flight from Dubai to the city, Air India flight IX 0384 with 177 passengers on board, landed at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Tuesday.
125 out of the 177 people are in quarantine in Mangaluru. 15 of these have been tested Corona Positive. 52 people are in quarantine in Udupi, 5 of these have been tested positive. The passengers included 38 pregnant women and 12 medical emergency cases, none among these have been tested positive.
All the foreign returnees were screened as per the standard operating procedure to ensure they were asymptomatic for COVID-19 and then taken to their chosen place of accommodation in KSRTC buses for the mandatory 14 days quarantine.
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