John Wilbert & Savita Kumari
Port Blair, Sep 17: The Director Tourism IP&T, Mr. Alok Kumar, (DANICS) informed today that eight flights with 1248 passengers arrived at Port Blair Airport this morning and all passengers have undergone RT-PCR test, the results for today’s RT-PCR are awaited.
While addressing the COVID-19 media briefing today at IP&T Conference hall he pointed out that among passengers who arrived yesterday (Thursday), no passenger was found COVID-19 positive at the RT-PCR test.
The Director further informed that 229 persons (travelers) bound for N&M Andaman were tested at Ferrargunj in which all persons were tested COVID-19 negative during Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and passengers departing from Port Blair at Phoenix Bay, altogether 158 people were tested and at afternoon 30 person were also tested in which all were found COVID-19 negative during Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and at Mohanpura Bus stand 198 RAT was conducted in which all were found COVID-19 negative and at Helipad total 10 persons were tested in which all found COVID-19 negative.
At Phoenix Bay jetty, 80 passengers arrived today, all were found Covid-19 negative during Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and 14 crew members of MV Strait Islands were also tested today, results for RT-PCR test are awaited, he said.
“Today a total of 340 doses of vaccine were provided to eligible beneficiaries, 246 were of the 18-44 year age group at JNRM Vaccination Center,” he added.
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