At Bacha Khan International Airport (BKIA), Peshawar, 39 passengers of two flights arrived from United Arab Emirates (UAE) were tested positive for coronavirus infection here on Thursday.
Airport sources said these passengers boarded the planes from UAE probably without any medical test and oblivious to each other’s health condition. The carelessness may have caused the spread of infection in the planes.
The sources said infected passengers were handed over to relevant authorities for shifting to quarantine.
On the other hand, passengers staged a protest demanding a second medical test for coronavirus, however according to the airport authorities,the second test also confirmed 60 patients positive for coronavirus.
It is pertinent to mention here that, the other day 32 frontline workers of Civil Aviation Authority were also found infected with the virus.
The national tally on Thursday of total active COVID-19 cases recorded 66,282 with 4,207 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 4,171 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.
One hundred and thirty-one corona patients have died during past 24 hours, 110 of whom were under treatment in hospital and 21 out of the hospital in their respective quarantines or homes, according to the latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
During the past 24 hours, most of the deaths have occurred in the Punjab followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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