Indigo passenger travelling to Madurai tests Covid-19 positive; second such case in Tamil Nadu

Chennai: Another passenger onboard an Indigo flight travelling from Bengaluru to Madurai on Wednesday tested Covid-19 positive.
"An asymptomatic passenger who travelled on IndiGo on 6E 7214 from Bangalore to Madurai on May 27, 2020 was discovered to be COVID-19 positive during the mandatory testing at the quarantine facility in Madurai on 27th May," the airline said in its statement.

The airline said that the passenger had observed all the precautionary measures including face mask, face shield and gloves, like other passengers on-board the aircraft.

“All our aircraft are regularly sanitised as a standard operating procedure and the aircraft that operated this flight too was immediately disinfected as per protocol," Indigo added.

Further, the airline said all the operating crew have been home quarantined for 14 days. This is the second instance of passengers testing positive in Tamil Nadu.

Domestic flight operations resumed in the State on Monday. While the arrivals at the Chennai airport alone have been restricted, the other airports in the State are operating as per the protocol for all other airports in the county.

Earlier this week, another asymptomatic passenger who travelled on flight 6E 381 from Chennai to Coimbatore on Monday evening tested positive for the infection.

These instances come as the State which is among the worst infected in the country crossed the 19,000 mark on Wednesday with 827 people testing positive for the novel Coronavirus.