{"id":452376,"date":"2021-11-29T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452376"},"modified":"2021-11-29T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T03:28:22","slug":"passengers-from-at-risk-countries-to-undergo-rt-pcr-test-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passengers-from-at-risk-countries-to-undergo-rt-pcr-test-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers from &#8216;at risk&#8217; countries to undergo RT-PCR test: Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers from countries categorized as &#8216;at risk&#8217; by the Union Health Ministry will have to undergo COVID-19 tests upon arrival in Gujarat if they are not fully vaccinated, an official said here Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nine countries have been classified as &#8216;at risk&#8217; following worldwide concern about a new variant of coronavirus, designated as Omicron. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As per the letter issued to us on Friday by the Union Health Ministry, RT-PCR test is mandatory for all incoming travelers who do not have vaccination certificate,&#8221; said state Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Manoj Aggarwal. <\/p>\n<p>Those who are fully vaccinated will also be screened at the airport and allowed to proceed if they do not show any symptoms of the infection, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers from countries categorized as &#8216;at risk&#8217; by the Union Health Ministry will have to undergo COVID-19 tests upon arrival in Gujarat if they are not fully vaccinated, an official said here Saturday. Nine countries have been classified as &#8216;at risk&#8217; following worldwide concern about a new variant of coronavirus, designated as Omicron. &#8220;As per the letter issued to us on Friday by the Union Health Ministry, RT-PCR test is mandatory for all incoming travelers who do not have vaccination certificate,&#8221; said state Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Manoj Aggarwal. Those who are fully vaccinated will also be screened at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452376","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}