Nagpur: The second Sharjah-Nagpur flight landed in the city with 95 flyers early Sunday morning. The first flight had landed on February 14 after the services resumed for the first time since the lockdown imposed on March 24 last year.
Of the 95 flyers, 77 were exempted from institutional quarantine while 12 were taken to Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) where Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is running a quarantine centre for the international flyers. Another six passengers preferred paid quarantine at different hotels.
All the 95 passengers who arrived on Sunday were fine and didn’t show any symptoms, as per officials. They would be taking a RT-PCR test on the fifth day and a decision on their discharge would be taken as per the result.
None of the flyers from the first flight has tested positive. The flight had brough 60 passengers, of which 23 were quarantined and 37 exempted. Of the 23, 15 were in paid quarantine and eight in VNIT.
Authorities had allowed resumption of the international flight on a weekly basis but the second flight was cancelled due to unexplained reason on February 21.