At Delhi’s IGI airport, international travelers require -ve test to leave airport

New Delhi, Dec 1: At Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport all international arrivals are being tested for COVID-19, with a negative result needed to leave the airport. All international passengers testing negative must still, however, follow home quarantine protocol for seven days, after which they are required to take another RT-PCR Test.

Delhi airport tweeted this morning to say the process of screening international arrivals from ‘at-risk’ countries is running smoothly. “Total 1,013 passengers from four ‘at risk’ flights… successfully completed arrival formalities due to availability of Rapid PCR Test along with RTPCR test,” airport authorities said.

Meanwhile, at Mumbai airport, all international passengers from ‘at-risk’ countries will undergo mandatory seven-day institutional quarantine, during which time they must take three RT-PCR tests – on the second, fourth and seventh days after arrival. They will be allowed to leave only after returning negative test results.

This morning the Maharashtra Health Department said six passengers arriving from ‘at risk’ countries had already tested Covid positive. All six are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing. Contact tracing is underway, the Health Department said.