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The new Covid-19 variant, Omicron can be five times more infectious, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.

With the latest additions, Maharashtra's tally of infections rose to 66,36,425 and the COVID-19 death toll to 1,41,025.

In the wake of the new coronavirus variant Omicron, Union Health Ministrys Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said that passengers arriving from at risk countries need to undergo RT-PCR test on arrival and if found positive for COVID-19, they will be treated under clinical management protocol.

Passengers originating or transiting from 'at-risk' countries will have to undergo an RT-PCR test after arrival and will be required to wait for the results at the airport before leaving or taking a connecting flight, according to the revised guidelines which came into effect from December 1.

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Segregation of arriving passengers from high-risk countries, compulsorily RT-PCR test for others, and 14 day home quarantine are among the measures taken by the Mumbai airport amid concerns over the Omicron strain.

Under the new norms, RT-PCR tests are mandatory for passengers arriving from 'at-risk' countries and they will be allowed to leave the airport only after the test results come.

Government has limited the random sampling to 2 percent of the travellers as per the latest rules, apart from the mandatory RT-PCR test of all passengers from 'at risk' countries.

In view of the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday made institutional quarantine mandatory for passengers coming to the state from countries at-risk and also RT-PCR mandatory irrespective of vaccination status for those coming from other states.