{"id":592186,"date":"2023-07-20T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=592186"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T06:52:14","slug":"rules-eased-no-more-random-covid-test-on-arrival-for-international-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rules-eased-no-more-random-covid-test-on-arrival-for-international-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules eased, no more random Covid test on arrival for international flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: People travelling to India from other countries will not be required to undergo random testing for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Inview of persistently low incidence of Covid-19 and wide vaccination coverage, the health ministry on Wednesday said it has decided to do away with the earlier requirements for RT-PCR based testing of a random 2% subset of international travellers to India. However, the ministry added, the earlier advice for precautionary measures to be followed in context of Covid-19 by airlines as well as international travellers shall continue to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: People travelling to India from other countries will not be required to undergo random testing for Covid-19. Inview of persistently low incidence of Covid-19 and wide vaccination coverage, the health ministry on Wednesday said it has decided to do away with the earlier requirements for RT-PCR based testing of a random 2% subset of international travellers to India. However, the ministry added, the earlier advice for precautionary measures to be followed in context of Covid-19 by airlines as well as international travellers shall continue to apply.<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592186","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=592186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}