MANGALURU: Deputy commissioner K V Rajendra directed the cabin crew members of airlines, to identify passengers in their flight, who have symptoms like fever and swollen lymph nodes, before landing at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA).
The DC chaired a meeting of officials from the health department, MIA, airlines, customs and CISF, at the airport on Tuesday, in the wake of two monkeypox cases reported in Kerala. The second monkeypox case, which was found in a 31-year-old man from Kannur, had travelled via MIA. The DC said that since large numbers of passengers from Kerala arrive at MIA, the airport staff and airline cabin crew members need to join hands with the health department, to prevent the spread of monkeypox.
