The Kolkata airport authorities will reintroduce the rapid PCR test for arriving international fliers from Monday because passengers now have to wait for six to seven hours at the terminal for the Covid test results, officials said.
The airport officials also said on Sunday that the rates of the tests would be reduced.
Since December 1, the health ministry has made it mandatory for passengers arriving from countries identified as ‘at risk’, following the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, to undergo Covid tests on arrival at an Indian airport.
At Kolkata airport on Sunday, passengers of a couple of flights that arrived in short intervals alleged delays in getting tested.
