{"id":413600,"date":"2021-05-05T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413600"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:49:33","slug":"do-away-with-rt-pcr-test-requirement-for-domestic-travel-icmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/do-away-with-rt-pcr-test-requirement-for-domestic-travel-icmr\/","title":{"rendered":"Do away with RT-PCR test requirement for domestic travel: ICMR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday released new guidelines for Covid-19 testing, aimed at better management of limited RT-PCR test capacity even as caseloads remain high.<\/p>\n<p>It suggested removing the requirement for an RT-PCR test for domestic travel. \u201cThe need for RTPCR test in healthy individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel may be completely removed to reduce the load on laboratories,\u201d it said on Tuesday. However, the guidelines state that non-essential travel or inter-state travel of symptomatic individuals should be avoided, and asymptomatic individuals undertaking essential travel should follow Covid-19 appropriate behavior, the guidelines added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday released new guidelines for Covid-19 testing, aimed at better management of limited RT-PCR test capacity even as caseloads remain high. It suggested removing the requirement for an RT-PCR test for domestic travel. \u201cThe need for RTPCR test in healthy individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel may be completely removed to reduce the load on laboratories,\u201d it said on Tuesday. However, the guidelines state that non-essential travel or inter-state travel of symptomatic individuals should be avoided, and asymptomatic individuals undertaking essential travel should follow Covid-19 appropriate behavior, the guidelines added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}