Air passengers from 9 states will have to show Covid-19 negative reports to enter Bengal
The West Bengal government has made prior RT-PCR tests and a Covid-19 negative report mandatory for flight passengers arriving in Kolkata from nine states.
A statement released by the state government on Friday said that flight passengers coming to West Bengal from five states – Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh – need to carry Covid-19 negative reports from April 26.
Earlier in February this year, the state had made such reports mandatory for flight passengers coming from four states – Kerala, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Karnataka. The test has to be conducted 72 hours prior to the passengers’ departure.
