CISF has directed its personnel engaged in rescue operations to go into quarantine.
One of the 18 passengers, who died when an Air India flight crashed during landing in Kerala’s Kozhikode, has tested positive for Covid-19, PTI reported. The state’s Higher Education Minister KT Jaleel said that samples of the deceased passenger were sent for testing and they came back positive for the disease. Health Minister KK Shailaja asked the personnel engaged in rescue operations to report to authorities and go into self-quarantine as a precautionary measure. The state government will conduct their Covid-19 tests, she said, according to ANI. The Central Industrial Security Force also directed its personnel to go into preventive quarantine.
