Up to 30 ICSF workers who rescued passengers from the Air India Express flight that crashed in Kozhikode on Friday night have been quarantined after at least two passengers on board tested positive for Covid-19. Officials were quarantined on Saturday for the next 14 days.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the first to respond at the site of the turn of the destination at Karipur Airport, where the Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 other people on board overcame the runway of the table, fell into a 35-foot-deep valley and broke. In. two killing eighteen passengers, adding the two Boeing 737 pilots.
Senior CISF officials said Saturday that he learned that one of the passengers who died in the crashes had swelled up with a coronavirus. “There have been reports that some other positive survivor by Covid-19, however, this has not yet been determined. As a precaution, we have quarantined the bodies of workers interested in rescuing these passengers,” the officer said, requesting anonymity.
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Confirming development, the IcSF Special Director General (Airports) MS A Ganapathy said that through the search for contacts, they had so far met 30 ICSF members who were to be quarantined.
“13 of them living with their families will remain in house quarantine while the other 17 have been quarantined at a school near the airport according to the state administration,” Ganapathy said.
In addition to the 30, the force will also conduct Covid-19 tests for the exposed, the officer said. He said some airport officials had also been asked to be quarantined.
The state government has now suggested to citizens who helped with rescue operations to be quarantined. “The state will not forget its work, but we will have to take precautions,” said Health Minister K K Shailaja.
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