Covid-19 rules for international passengers: 7-day home stay, test on Day 8
India on Friday made seven-day home quarantine mandatory for all international arrivals, with an RT-PCR test on the eighth day, and also increased the list of “at risk” countries from 12 to 19.
The revised guidelines come at a time when the daily Covid-19 case count is rising — 1,17,100 new cases were reported on Friday, taking the active caseload to 3,71,363 — driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
The revised guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare will come into effect from January 11. “The existing guidelines have been revised in view of reporting of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.1.529; named Omicron) which has been classified as Variant of Concern by the World Health Organisation,” the ministry said.
