With the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreading across the world, Chandigarh international airport has started conducting RT-PCR tests of all passengers arriving from 12 high-risk countries —UK, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel.
In addition to this, passengers will have to undergo home quarantine for seven days and another test on the eight day. If found negative, they will have to be on self-health monitoring for the next seven days and if tested positive for the new variant, strict isolation and treatment protocol is to be followed till being tested negative.
In September this year, Chandigarh International Airport had established an RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) lab on the airport premises. The lab provides travellers their Covid-19 test results in less than 30 minutes.
