No quarantine, testing at airport for international travellers starting Feb 14

International travellers will no longer need to quarantine for seven days or get tested at the airport if they come from an at-risk country, according to the revised guidelines issued by the union health ministry on Thursday. With the omicron variant-driven wave subsiding in the country, the government has also done away with a repeat test on day 8 of arrival.

The new guidelines will come into effect February 14 onwards. At present, there are 141 districts in India where the positivity rate is over 10% and 160 districts where the positivity rate is between 5 and 10%. The country’s daily positivity rate – proportion of samples tested that return positive – has come down to 4.4% on February 10 as compared to 20.75 just two weeks ago on January 24.