Coronavirus: 7 Air India Passengers Tested Positive, Says New Zealand Government

Seven passengers who traveled from Delhi to Auckland on an Air India flight on August 23 have tested positive for Covid-19. New Zealand’s Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay said in a press briefing that the seven had ‘traveled from a country with a high incidence of COVID’.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson said the fact that the cases had been detected showed that the country’s managed immigration and quarantine system was working, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

‘I don’t want to say what country because I don’t know what country each traveller was from, the flight was an Air India flight, but that does not mean that the people who came on that flight are necessarily from India. They are all people who are entitled to be in New Zealand.’

The Health Ministry later confirmed the flight had come from Delhi and arrived in New Zealand on August 23.Earlier,Hong Kong had banned Air India flights till the end of August after some passengers on one of its flights tested positive for COVID-19 post-arrival.