More passengers on premier Rajdhani test corona positive

AHMEDABAD: After nearly 600 labourers, especially those working at PSP construction site and bullet train site, tested Covid positive, AMC launched surveillance at major railway stations hoping to isolate more labourers before they enter the city taking the virus to work.
Three days of testing passengers from three trains--Rajdhani Express (Delhi-A’bad), Gorakhpur-A’bad Express from UP and Muzaffarpur-A’bad Express from Bihar --revealed more passengers on Rajdhani tested positive than two other trains mainly bringing in labourers back to state industries.Top sources at Ahmedabad railway station said that of 6,500 passengers disembarking these three trains checked for Covid in four days beginning Monday, 112 tested positive.
“Of these 84, 82 people who tested positive had travelled by Rajdhani. This roughly calculates to three out of every four passengers who tested positive travelled by Rajdhani," said a senior railways official. Only 30 passengers who tested positive travelled by Gorakhpur and Muzaffarpur trains.
The railway officials were also surprised that a higher number of 90 passengers who travelled by 3 AC or 2AC were carrying Covid infection compared to general class passengers whose number was only 20-odd. Popping a paracetamol continues to be the biggest weapon of people in general to avoid being screened and quarantined in case their body temperature lights up thermal scan.
“Many Covid-positive passengers confessed to taking paracetamol tablets before boarding and disembarking the trains. However, with rapid antigen tests being performed, the passengers could fake-clear the screening test,” said a railways official.