Chennai: Four international travellers who returned from China and Dubai have tested COVID positive at the Madurai and Chennai international airports on Wednesday.
While a mother and her six-year-old daughter, who landed fromChina via Colombo tested positive for COVID at the MaduraiInternational airport last evening, two others who arrived fromDubai tested positive at the Chennai international airport today.
A report from Madurai said the mother and daughter underwentRT-PCR tests upon their arrival and went to their home in Virudhanagar district.
As the results today returned positive, there were isolated in theirhome, according to District Collector Meghanatha Reddy.
Both of them were asymptomatic and their health condition wasbeing monitored.
Their samples were being sent for further tests to the State PublicHealth Laboratory here for genome sequencing to ascertain whetherthey were infected with the new BF-7 variant, which is the main cause for spike in cases in some countries.
Efforts were on to trace their contacts to find out whether any ofthem were infected, he said.
Meanwhile, two other passengers, who landed from Dubai, havetested positive at the Chennai airport and both of them hail fromAlangudi in Pudukottai district.
Their samples were also sent to the State Public Health Laboratoryto test whether it is the new variant BF.7.
(With UNI inputs)
