The second wave of the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak in India continues to worsen, with 300 passengers arriving at Assam’s Silchar airport yesterday and failing to comply with Assam’s mandatory instant test requirement for passengers, fleeing without being examined.
Local police told the Indian Express today that the police are tracking the identity of the 300 passengers who escaped and will take legal action.
The case once again highlights the Indian public’s habit of non-compliance with epidemic prevention regulations and the carelessness of Indian law enforcement and enforcement personnel, and explains why at least 53 passengers on a flight from New Delhi to Hong Kong recently were diagnosed with the 2019 Chinese Communist Virus Disease (COVID-19, Wuhan pneumonia). Some government-approved medical clinics in India’s private sector can provide negative test reports for a fee, allowing those who pay to take the flight without incident.
Following the second wave of the worsening outbreak in India, the northeastern province of Assam changed its rules to make it mandatory for all incoming and outgoing air passengers to undergo rapid antigen testing (RAT) and RT-PCR nucleic acid virus testing upon arrival at Assam’s airports.
Silchar District Medical Officer Sumit Sattawa told The Indian Express that 690 people landed at Silchar Airport on the 21st, some of whom had to transfer to other northeastern provinces and did not need to be tested; about 300 passengers did not go to the testing center to be tested; and 189 passengers went to the testing center as required to be tested, of whom six were confirmed.
Due to the small size of Silchar Airport, arriving air passengers were sent to the nearby Tikol Model Hospital testing center for testing. Satawan said the government provided buses to take passengers to the testing center, or passengers could take their own rides to the testing center after providing driving information to the authorities.
Satawan said the police are tracing the identity of the passengers who evaded the test, the way of escape and details, and then will take legal action, and the case will be registered according to the relevant laws and regulations.
India’s second wave of Wuhan pneumonia outbreak has not yet seriously hit the northeastern provinces, including Assam, which yesterday added 1,665 new cases, with a positive test rate of 2.68 percent, and now has 9,048 active cases requiring treatment.
Fearing the introduction of the epidemic from other Indian provinces and cities, the Assam government mandated that air travelers entering and leaving the region be subjected to immediate testing, and announced a series of measures to restrict the movement of people on the 20th, including that all markets, restaurants and stores must close by 6 p.m.
The cumulative number of cases of Wuhan pneumonia in India reached 15,965,373 as of 7 p.m. tonight, with 2,133,365 active cases and 184,804 deaths, as the epidemic continues to worsen.
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