New Delhi, Gandhinagar, Dec 24:
Ramping up anti-Covid measures, the Government today said RT-PCR test would be made mandatory for passengers from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand and asked States to ensure adequate availability of medical oxygen and life support equipment such as ventilators in hospitals.
From Saturday, random Coronavirus testing of international passengers started at airports including those in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Indore and Goa under new guidelines that require testing of two per cent of the passengers arriving in each international flight.
With the ordeal faced by the country during the second COVID-19 wave in April 2021 still fresh in the minds, the Centre said oxygen control rooms should be reinvigorated at state and UT levels for prompt resolutions of oxygen-related issues and challenges.
Reintroducing more precautionary measures, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that passengers arriving in India from China and four other countries if found COVID-19 positive or with fever will be quarantined.
“In view of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, passengers from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Bangkok (Thailand) are required to upload their RT-PCR reports in advance (for travel to India).
“After landing in India, they will undergo thermal screening and we have issued an order for them to be quarantined if found positive or with fever on their arrival in the country,” Mandaviya told reporters in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
The Union Health Minister said that filling up the ‘Air Suvidha’ form to declare their health status will be made mandatory for passengers coming from these countries. (PTI)
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