No Quarantine For International Arrivals In India, Travellers To Self Monitor For 14 Days

India is slowly doing away with quarantine provisions for international arrivals in the country. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has released detailed guidelines for international arrivals at airports and seaports in the country.

Now international passengers arriving at the IGI Airport will not require to undergo mandatory weeklong quarantine as new Covid-19 guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare come into force from Monday.

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has directed health officials and district magistrates to ensure the Centre¡¯s revised Covid-19 guidelines for international arrivals are followed at the IGI Airport from February 14.

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Passengers to show self-declaration

According to the guidelines, all the passengers will show a self-declaration form on arrival at the airport. The passengers found to be symptomatic during screening will be immediately isolated and taken to a medical facility under health protocol.

If tested positive, their contacts will be identified and managed as per laid down protocol.

The protocol post-arrival mandates that two per cent of the total passengers in a flight will undergo random testing at the airport.

The passengers will have to submit samples and will be allowed to leave the airport. If such travellers test positive, their samples would be sent for genomic sequencing.

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All travellers will self-monitor their health for the next 14 days of arrival. Earlier, such travellers were required to undergo weeklong home quarantine.

According to the guidelines, if travellers under self-health monitoring develop signs and symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, they will immediately self-isolate and report to their nearest health facility or call the national helpline number (1075)/ state helpline number.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority is likely to meet with experts sometime this week to review the existing curbs and discuss whether they should be lifted to allow economic activity.

India's daily new Covid-19 cases witnessed another dip in cases as the country reported 34,113 fresh Covid cases on Monday, as per the Union Health Ministry data update. Additionally, the country reported 346 in last 24 hours taking the country's Covid death toll at 509,011, the health ministry data revealed.

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