Gujarat will continue to conduct RT-PCR tests at Ahmedabad and Surat for all travellers from Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. Travellers arriving from Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom will have to serve a week-lengthy home quarantine period even if they test adverse. They will be tested once more following a week and released from quarantine only if the return a adverse test. The airports in these two cities will continue to use thermal scanners for all incoming international travellers.
Meanwhile, domestic travellers arriving in Surat will have to go by way of seven days of home quarantine, whilst their overall health and wellbeing will be monitored for 14 days. Travellers to Vadodara without the need of a adverse RT-PCR report will have to stay in home isolation till their reports arrive. The other airports, such as Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Kanlda, Rajkot, Vadodara, and Surat will continue the practice of thermal screening of all domestic passengers.
Additionally, guests from Maharashtra to Kandla will have to carry with them a adverse RT-PCR test report that was not performed more than 72 hours ahead of travel. The airport authorities will offer you a test to these who are not carrying a adverse report for a charge. Gujarat was one of the states that had borne the brunt of the second wave of Covid-19. The predicament has enhanced drastically due to the fact then with just 689 active situations. In all, Gujarat has a total caseload of more than 8 lakh and recorded 10,074 fatalities from the virus.
On Wednesday, Maharashtra followed the likes of Odisha, Punjab, and Rajasthan to scrap the require for adverse RT-PCR test report for these travelling to the state. However, this applies only to travellers who have received each doses of the vaccine and they will have to carry documentary proof of the vaccination.