Indian govt issues new guidelines for inbound international flyers; Covid negative passengers exempted from quarantine
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Home Ministry has issued a new set of guidelines for international passengers flying to India, applicable from Aug 8, Ministry of Civil Aviation tweeted on Sunday.
The new guidelines supersede the May 24 orders, the tweet added.
Attention International Travellers!@MoHFW_INDIA has issued fresh guidelines for arriving international passengers in supersession of guidelines issued on the subject dated 24th May 2020.
— MoCA_GoI (@MoCA_GoI) August 2, 2020
These will be operational from 0001 Hrs, 8th August 2020. pic.twitter.com/nCpEa4YBCU
Some of the points in the new guidelines for international arrivals are:
All travellers should submit self-declaration form on the website newdelhiairport.in at least 72 hours before travel.
They should give an undertaking on the website that they would undergo mandatory quarantine for 14 days i.e. 7 days paid institutional quarantine at their own cost, followed by 7 days isolation at home with self-monitoring.
Travellers may also seek exemption from institutional quarantine by submitting a negative RT-PCR test report on arrival.
The note from the Home Ministry said states can also formulate their own rules for quarantine and isolation after assessing the traveller's condition on arrival.
The provision for prior declaration has been introduced to avoid long queues and overcrowding at the Delhi Airport and a vast number of exemption requests from mandatory quarantine on arrival by the passengers.
In a relief to the passengers, the new guidelines have done away with seven day mandatory quarantine for people with compelling reasons including human distress, pregnancy, death in the family, serious illness and for parent(s) with children of the age of 10 years or below.
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