Gandhinagar (Gujarat): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandavya announced on Saturday that RT-PCR tests are mandatory for passengers from five countries, adding China.
“RT-PCR will be mandatory for foreign arrivals from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand. Upon arrival, if a passenger from those countries presents symptoms or tests positive for COVID-19 infection, then it will be quarantined,” Health Minister Mandaviya said in a verbal exchange with ANI.
He also said that completing the Air Suvidha form to claim existing fitness will also be mandatory for foreign passengers from those Asian countries.
Taking note of COVID cases around the world, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandavya said Friday that the Center and states want to work in “tandem” and in a “spirit of collaboration,” as has been the case in previous outbreaks.
Mandaviya, while chairing a virtual meeting Friday with fitness ministers, senior secretaries, other leading secretaries and data commissioners, said the country wants to be alert and fully prepared for COVID control.
The assembly was held in light of the recent increase in instances in some countries such as China, Japan, Brazil and the United States in the presence of the Minister of Health of the Union Bharati Pravin Pawar, V K Paul, member of NITI Aayog, to discuss public physical preparedness for the containment and control of COVID-19 and the advancement of the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19.
Manadaviya also the importance of public awareness campaigns related to compliance with appropriate Covid behaviors in view of the upcoming holiday season.
He called on state health ministers to monitor and review the readiness of all infrastructure and ensure they have a good enough inventory of essential medicines.
In particular, the Ministry of Health of the Union already published in June 2022 “Operational guidelines for a revised surveillance strategy in the context of COVID-19” that require early stumbling onion, isolation and immediate control of suspected cases and shown to stumble upon and involve outbreaks of new SARS.
On Thursday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya told parliament that India would begin randomizing testing 2% of foreign passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19, given COVID cases in China and other countries.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported on Saturday morning that in the past 24 hours, India has recorded 201 new COVID-19 infections.
The country’s active workload lately stands at 3,397, representing 0. 01 consistent with the percentage of the total number of cases.
The recovery is lately 98. 8%. No fewer than 183 recoveries were made in the last 24 hours, bringing the total recoveries to 4,41,42,791.
The daily positivity rate is 0. 15%, while the weekly positivity rate is 0. 14%.
Mandaviya told parliament on Thursday that the government had begun taking random samples of RT-PCR among passengers arriving at the country’s foreign airports amid the recent outbreak of coronavirus infections in the countries, adding to China, Japan, South Korea, France and the United States.
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