Sixty travelers from Abu Dhabi to Peshawar tested positive for the coronavirus at Bacha Khan International Airport on Thursday morning (today).
Passengers staged a protest saying that the travelers from UAE who landed at the Lahore and Islamabad airports had tested negative, but their reports had frequently returned as positive at the Peshawar airport.
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After this, the authorities retested the passengers and quarantined them at a private hotel.
So far, 80 passengers have tested positive at Bacha Khan Airport. According to reports, 32 staff members at the airport are already suffering from COVID-19.
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This is due to the fact that the SOPs and social distancing measures are not being followed on different flights.
In a bid to control the foreign variants of COVID-19, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had made the PCR test mandatory for all inbound passengers to Pakistan from 5 May onwards. Foreign passengers are also being tested with Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) at all national airports.
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