Britain Coronavirus New Strain: After six passengers arriving in New Delhi on Air India’s London-Delhi flight tested Covid good and issues rose across the globe more than the emergence of a new Coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Tuesday issued a set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to be followed at the point of entry and in basic with respect to all international passengers who have travelled from or transited by way of the United Kingdom (UK) in the previous 4 weeks (involving November 25 and December 23, 2020).
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Britain Coronavirus Strain: Health Ministry SOPs to be followed at International Airports
1) All international travelers arriving or transiting from the UK will be necessary to declare their travel history of earlier 14 days and fill up a self-declaration kind and be screened for Covid-19.
2) State governments are to assure that all passengers arriving or transiting from UK airports will be subjected to a Covid-19 RT-PCR test on arrival at their point of entry in India. In case of a good, MoHFW has encouraged that spike-gene-primarily based RT-PCR test also be performed.
3) If discovered good, passengers shall be isolated in an institutional isolation facility in a separate isolation unit coordinated by the state government. States have to earmark such facilities for isolation and therapy of passengers and arrange to send sample to National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune or other acceptable laboratory for genomic sequencing.
4) Passengers who test Covid-19 unfavorable at the airport will be advised residence quarantine.
5) Airlines are to assure that these guidelines are explained to passengers prior to verify-in, through the flight and also be displayed prominently at arrival and waiting regions of the airports.
6) Adequate arrangements are to be produced for passengers undertaking/waiting to the take the RT-PCR test and for isolation at the airports.
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