COVID-19 | RT-PCR must to get boarding passes for flyers from China, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Japan

A girl walks previous a billboard with a COVID-19 consciousness message on the Anna Worldwide Airport in Chennai on December 22, 2022.
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The Ministry of Civil Aviation has written to the airways asking them to make sure that no boarding passes are issued to passengers from China and 4 different nations who fail to submit their self-declaration type, on the Air Suvidha portal.

The Ministry letter has requested the airways to make sure that their check-in processes should incorporate the modifications to make sure that its order on boarding passes is executed.

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Beginning January 1, passengers arriving from China, Singapore, the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Thailand and Japan should mandatorily add an RT-PCR adverse report together with a self-declaration type containing their COVID-19 historical past, so as to be allowed to journey in order that the federal government companies can conduct contact tracing, when wanted.

Passengers transiting from one in all these high-risk nations with out finishing immigration in that nation will nevertheless, not be required to finish the formalities, Delhi airport mentioned in a publish on social media.

Amidst issues among the many tourism and hospitality business within the nation on the influence of the federal government’s choice on necessary testing, the Singapore Tourism Board mentioned in an announcement that it has not modified norms for guests from India, and absolutely vaccinated travellers from the nation will be capable to enter Singapore with no quarantine and testing necessities beneath the Vaccinated Journey Framework that got here into impact on April 1, 2022.