Authorities at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Saturday barred Dubai-bound 36 passengers from travelling after they were diagnosed with coronavirus, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The passengers who wanted to travel to UAE from different flights underwent rapidgen tests at the airport four hours before their flights. They were stopped from travelling after their tests came back positive.

According to sources in Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the infected passengers have now been shifted to different hospitals for quarantine.

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Reporter Saeed Ahmad Saeed