Centre issues SOP for UK flyers, RT-PCR test mandatory on arrival PTI
New Delhi: Passengers coming from the UK should undergo RT-PCR test and be isolated in a separate unit of an institutional facility if found positive, stated the Health Ministry’s standard operating procedure issued on Tuesday in view of a new variant of coronavirus detected there.
India has suspended all passenger flights connecting the United Kingdom from Wednesday till December 31 or till further orders in the wake of the emergence of a mutated strain of the virus there, joining several other countries that have imposed a similar flight ban.
Centre issues fresh SOP for passengers coming from UK Separate quarantine facility for those found Covid positive upon arrival
Passengers coming from the UK should undergo RT-PCR test and isolated in a separate unit of an institutional facility if found positive, stated the Health Ministry s standard operating procedure issued on Tuesday in view of the new variant of coronavirus detected there.
India has suspended all passenger flights connecting the United Kingdom from Wednesday till December 31 or till further orders in the wake of the emergence of a mutated strain of the virus there, joining several other countries that have imposed a similar flight ban.
RT-PCR test on arrival, separate isolation for COVID+ cases: Centre s SOPs for UK flyers
A spike gene-based RT-PCR test should also be performed by an appropriate laboratory in case of a positive sample, the health ministry recommended.
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Passengers arrived from UK to Chennai International Terminal been taken to quarantine centres. (Photo| EPS/ Ashwin Prasath) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Passengers coming from the UK should undergo RT-PCR test and isolated in a separate unit of an institutional facility if found positive, stated the Health Ministry s standard operating procedure issued on Tuesday in view of the new variant of coronavirus detected there.
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RT-PCR tests mandatory; separate isolation unit for those found with new variant
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Municipal workers in protective gear wait for passengers arriving from the U.K. at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai on December 22, 2020. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini
RT-PCR tests mandatory; separate isolation unit for those found with new variant
At least 20 passengers coming to India from the UK tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday as the government issued a stringent new SOPs mandating RT-PCR tests at all airports for each traveller from the country and isolation in a separate institutional facility for positive cases in view of the new coronavirus strain.
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