MP: Elderly woman found infected in RT-PCR test at Indore airport prevented from boarding Dubai flight

Indore | Wednesday | 27th October, 2021

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Indore, Oct 27 (PTI) A 72-year-old woman was not allowed to board the Indore-Dubai flight on Wednesday after she tested positive for coronavirus at the Devi Ahilyabai Holkar international airport here following which she was admitted to a COVID care centre, an official said.

“Every passenger of the weekly Indore-Dubai flight is subjected to undergo the Rapid RT-PCR test at the Indore airport.

Today, 104 passengers were examined and among them, a 72-year-old woman was found coronavirus positive,” health department"s medical officer Dr Priyanka Kourav told PTI.

The infected woman is a resident of Indore"s Bijalpur area.

She had already taken both doses of the vaccine against COVID-19, she said.

“As a precautionary measure, we have admitted her to a COVID-19 care centre, though she was not having any symptoms of the disease.