Air India Ground Staff Tests Positive for COVID-19, Handled Last Domestic Flight Before Lockdown

An worker of the Air India’s floor dealing with subsidiary has examined optimistic for novel coronavirus, sources mentioned on Sunday. The feminine worker of the Air India Air Transport Services Ltd (AIATSL) has been admitted to the BMC hospital within the western suburb of Jogeshwari, in response to the sources.

AIATSL is the ground-handling arm of nationwide service Air India. AIATSL chief A Okay Sharma couldn’t be contacted regardless of a number of makes an attempt. Sources mentioned the feminine worker had dealt with the final arriving flight of Air India earlier than all home air passenger flights had been quickly suspended by the federal government from final Wednesday.

This information comes a number of days after a SpiceJet pilot with no worldwide journeys was examined optimistic for COVID-19. “One of our colleagues, a first officer with SpiceJet, has tested positive for COVID-19. The test report came on March 28. He did not operate any international flight in March 2020,” a spokesperson of the airline informed PTI.

“The last domestic flight that he operated was on March 21 from Chennai to Delhi and since then he had quarantined himself at home,” the spokesperson added.

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