Covid explosion at Amritsar Airport

Over 275 passengers boarded on 2 different inbound flights from Italy were tested positive upon arrival at Punjab’s Amritsar airport.
Around 175 passengers on a Rome-Amritsar charter flight and 125 passengers on another charter flight from Milan-Amritsar were found positive. The charter flight was operated by Portuguese company EuroAtlantic Airways.
According to the reports, children and infants travelling on the plane were exempted from testing.
Ambulances lined up outside the airport to shift the infected passengers to isolation wards set up in hospitals across the city as per protocol. Several of the passengers who were tested Covid positive created ruckus at the airport alleging the test results as they had been tested negative hours before boarding the flight. A probe has been ordered against the private laboratory after this incident and AAI has suspended the services of the Delhi-based laboratory replacing it with a local lab.