
CAA Refutes Rumours Of Coronavirus Patients Aboard Kenya Airways Flight
By Elite Reporter
Officials
of Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have refuted allegations that passengers
aboard a Kenya Airways flight were grounded and later forced to return to their
place of departure after some of the patients showed signs of the deadly
Coronavirus (COVID-19).
A
statement released by CAA on Monday about the incident reads thus;
“We have noted an unfortunate media post alleging that several passengers aboard a KLM flight exhibited “signs of flue and cough after several screenings on March 7, 2020. That’s not true.
The
post wrongly insinuated that the passengers were destined to be flown back on
the same KLM flight. The only thing that happened is that a KLM flight from
Entebbe International Airport to Amsterdam experienced a technical problem on
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