New coronavirus strain: Govt issues guidelines for UK passengers, RT-PCR tests mandatory
New coronavirus strain: Govt issues guidelines for UK passengers, RT-PCR tests mandatory
New coronavirus strain: The ministry has state governments to isolate those passengers testing positive an institutional isolation facility in a separate isolation unit coordinated by the respective state health authorities. Updated: December 22, 2020 8:50:20 pm
A municipal worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) watches passengers arrive from United Kingdom, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai.
In view of the emergence of a new and seemingly more contagious coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom, the Health Ministry Tuesday issued Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for passengers who have travelled from or transited through the UK in the past four weeks.
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Passengers arriving from the UK at Mumbai airport (Express photo)
The highly infectious new coronavirus strain found in the UK, leading to about 40 countries cutting off travel ties with the country, has not yet been detected in India, the government confirmed on Tuesday even as the
Health Ministry issued guidelines for passengers coming from Britain. The development came even as at least 20 passengers from the UK tested positive for Covid-19 while several states scrambled to issue their own guidelines.
Covid-19: No quarantine for select Middle East passengers arriving in Maharashtra
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The procedures follow the emergence of a new Covid-19 strain detected in the UK.
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has announced a fresh set of guidelines for all incoming/outgoing international passengers against the backdrop of the new Covid-19 virus strain detected in the UK, it was announced on Tuesday.
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai later provided the following exemptions in a release.
#ImportantUpdate with regards to international arriving passengers from Middle East/Europe and transiting via Mumbai to other domestic destinations.
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.#ImportantUpdate with regards to exemptions for international arriving passengers from the Middle East/Europe.#WeCare#CSMIApic.twitter.com/WAPSwjglhX CSMIA (@CSMIA Official) December 22, 2020
591 flyers arrive from UK, none found to be symptomatic: BMC Institutional quarantine is mandatory for all passengers. Only symptomatic passengers will be shifted to the hospital. No such case has come forward today, said Additional Municipal Commissioner P Velrasu. December 22, 2020 10:24:33 pm
A senior health official from Punjab, requesting anonymity, said there was a clear lapse, as the man had managed to travel despite testing positive.
A day after the state government put in new rules for travellers coming in from the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East, 591 passengers from the UK landed at Mumbai International Airport between Monday and Tuesday afternoon and none were found to be symptomatic.
Mumbai: India plans to track down everyone arriving from Britain over the past month, officials said on Tuesday, hoping to stop a more infectious strain of the coronavirus detected there spreading in a country battling the world’s second highest COVID-19 tally.
Eight people arriving from Britain tested positive for COVID-19 this week and more results are awaited, officials from three Indian cities said. So far none of the infections appeared to be the new strain, a senior government advisor said, while a testing coordinator said analysis was still ongoing.
Recorded COVID-19 infections in India exceeded 10 million at the weekend, second only to the United States. More than 146,000 people in India are recorded to have died from the disease.