In an ongoing district-level drive to contact and test the persons who have returned from United Kingdom in recent past, many untraced cases have come into notice of authorities. In these cases incomplete or wrong contact information such as address, mobile number was given by the traveler.
A senior Delhi Government official said that,” Over 3,900 passengers out of more than 14,000 who landed at IGI airport since November 25, have been found to have Delhi addresses. In many cases the district teams have failed to find the UK returnees on the given address or mobile number, which are incomplete. Attempts are being made to trace them at the earliest.”
In New Delhi district, a total of 592 people have arrived from United Kingdom where a highly transmissible strain has been reported. Out of these, 226 were found to have duplicate or untraceable addresses, the officer said. Such untraced cases have also been reported from other districts, officials added.
So far, 20 UK returnees who landed at IGI airport here have been found positive for corona virus. These included 11 who underwent mandatory RT-PCR test at the IGI Airport, while nine were tested positive in a door-to-door drive.
This is a sensitive issue not only from the point of view of spread of corona virus but also from the view point of security of nation. We can only hope that Delhi government will trace and test rest of the returnees from UK to effectively control the spread of highly transmissible new strain of corona virus.
Report- Vikas Chandra Agrawal