Random COVID tests of two per cent International passengers coming from highly-infected countries like China and Japan, began at the International airports in Tamil Nadu, including the Chennai airport, on Saturday.
The random tests of international passengers were being tested due to the new
variant of COVID-19, BF.7, a sub-lineage of BA.5 variant of Omicron have seen
a surge in some countries.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma.Subramanian inspected the testing
facilities at the Anna International airport here today.
Since the Covid cases are massively increasing in some Asian and other countries,the Union government ordered RT-PCR tests for random passengers arriving in India from these countries.
The Health Department has set up special counters in airports to test the passengers
who are arriving from the USA, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea.
However, since most of the passengers are arriving on different connecting flights,
the health department is monitoring all the passengers and selecting the two per cent
of passengers randomly and an RT-PCR test is being conducted for them.
Children below 12 years will not be tested. In the event of any children have symptoms
a fever or cold, they will be subjected to RT-PCR tests.The passengers, whose samples were tested should wait till the test results are out before exiting the airport.
