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Negative RT-PCR report mandatory for international passengers, says health ministry #IndiaNEWS
Fully vaccinated travellers arriving in India from countries with which New Delhi has an arrangement for mutual acceptance of recognised Covid-19 vaccines will not need to undergo home quarantine and testing from October 25, the health ministry said in a guideline issued on Wednesday.However, the travellers will need to produce a negative report of RT-PCR test conducted within 72 hours before boarding. They also need to be fully vaccinated at least 15 days before arriving in India.India has signed agreements for mutual recognition of nationally or World Health Organization-recognised Covid-19 vaccines with 11 countries, reported PTI. These are the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Nepal, Belarus, Lebanon, Belgium, Armenia, Ukraine, Hungary and Serbia.Countries with which India does not have a reciprocal arrangement on vaccines, but exempt fully-inoculated Indians from restrictions will also not need to quarantine. Both these group of countries fall under the Category A in the health ministry’s guidleines.If travellers from the Category A countries are partially or not vaccinated at all, they need to get tested for coronavirus on arrival in India, the guidelines said. They will be allowed to leave the airport after the test, but will have to quarantine for seven days and then take another coronavirus test on the eighth day of...Read more

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