Travellers to India from the UK, China, New Zealand and other ‘at-risk’ countries don’t have to undergo mandatory quarantine or bring a negative RT-PCR report from now on

• According to the new guidelines, all international travellers, who test negative for the COVID-19 shall self-monitor their health for the next 14 days of their arrival.
• The new guideline removes the 7-day mandatory quarantine rule for all the international travllers.
• It has also removed the mandatory 72-hour RT-PCR report policy for the travellers.

India’s health ministry, on February 10, rolled out a set of revised guidelines for international travellers, which will come into effect from February 14.

According to the new guidelines, all international travellers, who test negative for the COVID-19 shall self-monitor their health for the next 14 days of their arrival. The new guideline removes the 7-day mandatory quarantine rule for all the international travllers.

The new guidelines, rolled out by the Health Ministry, has also removed the mandatory 72-hour RT-PCR report policy for the travellers. The travellers can show their fully vaccinated certificates.

“The extant guidelines for international arrivals in India continue being formulated taking a risk-based approach. While monitoring the nature and spread of infection in the country and across the globe, cognisance is also given to the fact that economic activities need to be taken up in an unhindered manner,” said the new guidelines.

Furthermore, the ministry has also removed ‘at-risk’ markings for various countries (like the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China and many more) with high Omicron COVID-19 cases.

From February 14, only 2% of the total passengers in the flight shall undergo random post-arrival testing at the airport on arrival. This means that not all passengers will be tested for COVID-19 at the airport.

However, the government had suspended international passenger flights till February 28 in their earlier announcement. A few international flights are operational under the bubble arrangement with certain countries.

India reported over 67,000 new COVID-19 cases and 1,241 deaths in the last 24 hours.

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