Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday held a meeting with airport and port health officers as well as other authorities over screening and surveillance at all points of entries amid concerns over the new coronavirus variant ‘Omicron’, official sources said.
The health ministry has been advising states and Union territories to keep a strict vigil and undertake surveillance of international passengers coming to the country through various airports.
Testing of samples of international travellers coming from at risk’ countries on the first day and of specified category of passengers on the eighth day needs to be scrupulously done, it had stressed.
