Flights to Chennai and other Indian airports resumed on Monday.
Chennai:
Five passengers, who flew from Chennai to Salem in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said. Fifty-one people were quarantined as a result, they said, just days after India resumed limited domestic air travel after a two-month hiatus triggered by COVID-19.
Earlier, a passenger on an IndiGo flight that operated Monday from Chennai to Coimbatore had tested positive for the coronavirus and the airline had immobilized the flight crew for 14 days.
The 24-year-old was perhaps the first case of an air passenger tested positive for coronavirus after the resumption of domestic flight services on Monday.
Services were suspended on March 25 following the national closure to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
