7-Day Home Quarantine For At-Risk Nations’ Visitors Amid ‘Omicron’ Scare

New Delhi:

Worldwide passengers should submit 14 days’ journey historical past and add destructive Covid check outcomes, the federal government stated on Sunday. Travellers from nations deemed “at-risk” may also bear a compulsory 7-day dwelling quarantine in the event that they check destructive for the virus, the Union Well being Ministry stated in revised journey pointers for worldwide passengers in view of ‘Omicron’ – a brand new variant of Covid that has been categorised as a variant of concern by the World Well being Organisation. 

Passengers should submit a self-declaration kind on the net Air Suvidha portal and embrace journey historical past for the previous two weeks. They may also be required to add a destructive COVID-19 RT-PCR check report, which ought to have been carried out inside 72 hours of the journey. A declaration with respect to the authenticity of the Covid check report may also be required, manipulated reviews will make the passenger accountable for felony prosecution.

The brand new pointers will come into impact from December 1, 2021.

Vacationers from 12 at-risk nations might be subjected to testing and further surveillance. They might want to take the Covid check post-arrival and await outcomes on the airport earlier than leaving or taking any connecting flights. If the check is destructive, they will comply with dwelling quarantine for 7 days, re-test on the eighth day and if destructive once more, additional self-monitor for the subsequent 7 days.

These “at-risk” nations, as of November 26, are nations in Europe together with The UK, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel.

If such passengers are discovered to be symptomatic throughout screening, they are going to be instantly remoted and handled at a well being facility. In the event that they check constructive, their samples can be despatched for genomic testing on the INSACOG laboratory community, a multi-laboratory, multi-agency, pan-India community arrange by the federal government to watch genomic variations within the SARS-CoV-2. They are going to then be moved to a separate isolation facility and handled as per the usual protocol. The contacts of such constructive circumstances might be saved underneath institutional or dwelling quarantine, monitored strictly by the involved State Authorities as per commonplace protocol.

Travellers from nations excluding these ‘nations in danger’ might be allowed to go away the airport and shall self-monitor their well being for 14 days. 

A sub-section (5% of complete flight passengers) shall bear post-arrival testing at random on the airport on arrival.