Two UK returnees traced in Mohali

Tribune News Service

Mohali, December 26

The Mohali district administration has identified two international passengers who have returned from the UK in the past three days.

The duo is a husband and wife. They are residents of Sector 126 here.

Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Aashika Jain said the couple was quarantined at home and teams from the Health Department were monitoring their condition on a daily basis.

Aashika Jain said the passengers arriving at the Mohali international airport from the UK would be tested for the SARS-Cov2 virus and quarantined in accordance with the protocol and SOPs issued by the Centre in this regard.

The Additional District Magistrate said the institutional quarantine facility for suspected patients had been identified at Gian Sagar Hospital and officers had been deputed to identify places that may be provided as paid quarantine centres for international travellers.

She said surveillance and medical teams had been deputed at the Mohali international airport that would monitor international travellers and conduct screening/testing.

The nodal officer of the said team would procure the passenger manifest list from the international airlines and furnish it to a tracing and medical teams, she said.

The ADM said all suspected cases and their contacts would be looked after by the district epidemiologist and her team, supported by the district programme officer.

Eight travellers test negative for Covid in UT

• Chandigarh: The UT Health Department has conducted Covid tests on 17 UK returnees, of which eight have tested negative, while the results of nine are awaited.
• Those who returned from the UK between December 9 and 23 are being tested again by the RT-PCR mode. The samples are being collected from their houses.
• Chandigarh had received information about 132 such travellers by the Centre. Of these, 95 have been physically verified and an undertaking of self-quarantine for 14 days has been taken from all of them. All were asymptomatic and tested negative for Covid before boarding their flights. The remaining 37 could not be physically verified due to various reasons such as wrong addresses, locked houses, arrival cancelled or living in another city.
• Information of those travelling out of Chandigarh/those living in other states has been given to the state units concerned. All are being monitored through a helpdesk of the Health Department. TNS