New Delhi, Jan 02: The Health Ministry,of India issued guidelines for stricter surveillance and testing of passengers from the country, which are compulsory self-paid testing on arrival, home quarantine period for passengers with negative test result increased to 14 days.
Airports are asked to ensure adequate arrangement for passengers awaiting results, state governments to set up help desks besides creating institutional quarantine facility”for those who test positive.
New rules state that patients with new strain will be kept in the isolation facility till their sample tests negative & all their contacts, including at community level, would be isolated in institutional quarantine centres.
The DGCA has been asked to strictly ensure eligible airlines do not allow any passengers to travel from UK to India through a transit airport so there is no omissions in monitoring of those passengers.
Additionally, passengers will have to declare their 14 day travel history, declare their 72-hour Covid infection status, and carry a negative RT-PCR tes.
The standard operating procedure announced Today will be valid till January 30.
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