Seven return foreigners have returned from South Africa, the official said. (Represent)
Lucknow:
Thirteen of the nearly 300 international visitors to Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut have provided the wrong contact details to the authorities, the district’s chief medical officer said, adding that they were working to locate the location. their.
Akhilesh Mohan, Meerut’s Chief Medical Officer, said that officials are currently being sent to their homes to identify them and do their tests. The official said that if even these houses cannot be found, information will be provided to the local intelligence unit to help locate them.
“13 of the 297 returnees gave the wrong mobile phone numbers and addresses to the authorities. The details they gave us were provided to the LIU (Local Intelligence Unit) to find out where they are,” Meerut CMO’s Dr Akhilesh Mohan is quoted as saying. said by the news agency ANI.
Dr Mohan added that 7 of the 297 flyers had returned from South Africa, the country that first reported the Omicron variant that forced many countries including India to revise travel rules. However, the doctor did not say whether any of the missing travelers were from ‘at-risk’ countries.
There have been several reports of foreign nationals being unable to be tracked after landing in India.
In Karnataka, state government officials are trying to track down 10 more people believed to have gone missing from the airport. The southern state of the country is also trying to track down a 66-year-old South African man who was found to be infected with Omicron.
India reported its first two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Thursday but the government said it had no immediate plans to allow a booster vaccine despite requests from lawmakers.
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