Mumbai authorities have determined to amend the institutional quarantine guidelines for passengers arriving at the Mumbai International Airport from the UK, South Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
Under the new rules issued by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, travelers will likely be kept under institutional quarantine on arrival and RT-PCR tests will likely be carried out only on the seventh day after at the hotel or institution they’re lodging at their very own cost. If the reports of the test come negative, they are going to be allowed to depart the quarantine facility on the condition of seven days mandatory residence quarantine. Returnees will likely be stamped ‘residence quarantine’ and so they need to submit an undertaking that they may abide by rules.
If a returnee from the UK tests positive, that person will likely be shifted to Seven Hills Hospital. The GT Hospital has been allotted for Covid-19 positive returnees from different nations.
Earlier the BMC guidelines on 14 days mandatory quarantine suggested symptomatic passengers from the UK to be sent to the hospital for further investigation and checkup. Passengers from the rest of the nations like Southeast Asia and the US won’t be sent to institutional quarantine, however, will be stamped for 14 days residence quarantine by airport authorities as a precautionary measure.
Institutional quarantine rules are exempted for officers working in an overseas embassy and Counsel General Office. Officers working within the embassy applying for exemption should adhere to rules under the Vande Bharat Mission.
The Maharashtra government has also imposed a seven-hour evening curfew in cities throughout Maharashtra from December 22 for the next 15 days as a precautionary measure.
The new mutant strain of coronavirus found within the UK has forced Boris Johnson to announce another lockdown earlier than Christmas. A number of nations have imposed restrictions on flights from the UK and different European nations and South Africa.