Tatanagar railway station director on Friday said 14 of the 205 passengers tested positive for Covid-19 after a thermal scan and a Rapid Antigen Test at the railway premises.

This was the highest number of positive cases found at the A-1 category railway station so far.

H.K. Balmuchu, station director, said the Covid positive passengers were found in three trains - Mumbai- Howrah Gitanjali Express, Ahmedabad - Howrah Express and Howrah-Barbil Janshatabdi Express.

At present, all express trains are being run as special trains.

"The maximum number of Covid positive passengers were found in Howrah bound Gitanjali Express. The health department team noted down all relevant information (name, address and contact numbers) of the affected passengers and they were asked to stay in home quarantine, " said Balmuchu.

According to the station director, a help desk was set-up on the station premises and passengers arriving at the station in trains from other states are continuously undergoing thermal screening for more than two weeks.

A health department staff deployed at the station said, "This was the first time Covid positive passengers were found in double digits. On Monday, six passengers were found positive out of 235 passengers who underwent thermal screening while last week four passengers were found positive on a single day out of a total of 260 passengers."

Soon after the detection, the railway authorities at Tatanagar sanitised the platforms and all the surrounding areas of the station.