4 more UK returnees to Bengaluru test Covid positive

Bengaluru, Jan 10 : Four passengers, who returned from the UK on Sunday, tested Covid positive at the city airport, Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar said.
“Of the 289 passengers who took the RT-PCR test on arrival from London, 4 turned positive. They have been quarantined,” he said in a statement.
Of the total, 273 were passengers (146 men, 95 women and 32 children) while 16 were crew members.
“Swab samples of the infected passengers have been sent to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (Nimhans) here to ascertain the strain of the virus,” said Sudhakar.
The returnees were the first batch of passengers who flew into the city from London after flights from the UK resumed on January 8. Flights were suspended since December 23 due to the detection of a new Covid virus strain there.
Of the 3,965 passengers who returned to the state from the UK between December 9-22, 40 tested positive, with 11 of them having the new UK virus strain. Some of their primary contacts also tested positive and have been quarantined.