70% of plane passengers in India test positive for coronavirus

Despite the need for passengers to provide negative Covid-19 test results to board the planes, about 70 percent of passengers on a flight from Milan to Amritsar tested positive when they underwent tests after arriving in India on Wednesday afternoon.

And the Indian media reported, today, Thursday, quoting officials, that when the plane landed, the 160 adults who were on the plane were tested again, and 125 of them tested positive.

NDTV television station reported.

The passengers with a positive result were immediately placed under institutional quarantine.

After a ferocious and deadly outbreak of the Corona virus last year, infections in India declined for months, but increased sharply again for some time.

At the level of India, the result of positive Corona tests for about 91,000, today, Thursday, although the number of cases that were not recorded may be higher.

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