27 January 2020 12:17 am
Another two more passengers, suspected to be infected with corona-virus, was detected yesterday evening at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), BIA medical unit Dr. Chandika Bandara Wickramasuriya said.
He told Daily Mirror that both the passengers arrived on flight UL-315 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
Both were transit passengers-one en route to the Middle-East and the other to Pakistan.
"The pilot was informed about the 47-year-old Indonesian woman with difficulty in breathing by a Cabin crew member. She was shivering , a symptom of the coronavirus infection. The pilot immediately informed the control unit before landing ," the doctor said.
He said after the landing, the medical unit at BIA checked the patient's temperature. The temperature recorded 104 Fahrenheit.
Another 38-year-old Pakistani national from the same flight was detected by the Thermal Image Scanners (ITIS) placed at the arrival lounge and he was found with a high fever of 102.2 Fahrenheit which is higher than the normal body temperature.
The Pakistani passenger was en route to Pakistan from Malaysia.
Both patients were rushed to the Angoda Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH - Fever Hospital) to test whether they were infected with the coronavirus. (Chaturanga Samarawickrma and T.K.G. Kapila)