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Omicron: India puts passengers arriving from 12 countries “at risk”

Travellers from countries excluding those ‘countries at risk’ will be allowed to leave the airport and shall self-monitor their health for 14 days.

New Delhi: Union Health Ministry on Sunday revised guidelines for international arrivals in India to be effective from Dec 1. It mandates submitting 14 days of travel details, uploading negative RT-PCR test reports on the Air Suvidha portal before the journey.

As per Health Ministry’s guidelines, travellers from ‘countries at-risk will need to take the COVID test post-arrival and wait for results at the airport If tested negative they’ll follow, home quarantine for 7 days. Re-test on 8th day & if negative, further self-monitor for next 7 days.

Travellers from countries excluding those ‘countries at risk’ will be allowed to leave the airport and shall self-monitor their health for 14 days. A sub-section (5% of total flight passengers) shall undergo post-arrival testing at random at the airport on arrival.

India puts passengers arriving from the following countries “at-risk” with reports of the new Covid19 variant.