SpiceHealth and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) are putting the onus on each other for the "contamination" of COVID-19 testing machines at the Amritsar airport that led to approximately 64% of passengers on two international flights falsely testing positive on their arrival in January.
SpiceHealth, which was then operating in the airport's arrival area, had on January 6 and 7, 2022 tested 469 passengers who arrived on two charter flights from Rome and found 298 of them to be COVID-19-positive. This led to turmoil at the airport as passengers started protesting against the test results.
SpiceHealth — which is owned by SpiceJet's promoters Avani Singh and Ajay Singh — told PTI that it conducted an investigation in the matter with the testing machine manufacturer 'Thermofisher Accula' and found that the testing machines got contaminated as they were kept in an open space in the arrival section of the Amritsar airport.
