For visitors entering India from these countries, RTPCR is required.

Key sentence:

• The focal government has expanded its Covid-19 limitations to incorporate additional nations from worldwide voyagers planning to enter India.
• Voyagers from the UK and nations in the EU and the Middle East need an obligatory negative RTPCR report to get on trips to India. 

The focal government has expanded its Covid sickness (Covid-19)- related limitations to incorporate additional nations from worldwide voyagers planning to enter India requiring an obligatory negative RTPCR test report. 

The checks were forced on extra nations because of worries over new changes of the SARS-CoV-2 Covid, especially the ‘Mu’ and the C.1.2 variations revealed as of late, just as over the rising number of “Variations of Concern (VOCs)” and “Variations of Interest (Vols)” overall across the world, as per the Union service of wellbeing and family government assistance. 

The wellbeing service added seven extra nations to the rundown of countries where voyagers should convey a negative RTPCR test report to enter India. 

These seven nations are: 

• South Africa 

• Bangladesh 

• Botswana 

• China 

• Mauritius 

• New Zealand 

• Zimbabwe 

Voyagers from the United Kingdom (UK) and nations in the European Union (EU) and the Middle East need an obligatory negative RTPCR report to get on trips to India. They are likewise needed to take an RTPCR test upon appearance. 

Association wellbeing secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a proclamation, “Considering the reports of new transformations in SARS-CoV-2 and rising number of Variants of Concern (VOCs) and Variants of Interest (Vols) worldwide. 

The accompanying nations have been included the extent of part B of MoHFW’s Guidelines on International Arrival, as well as existing Countries “Partially B” for example Joined Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.” 

“More nations including South Africa, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, and Zimbabwe. 

Global voyagers from this load of nations would now require RTPCR negative reports to get on trips to India and RTPCR testing upon appearance here,” Bhushan added. 

The Union wellbeing secretary likewise requested boss secretaries from the individual states and Union domains to allude to the refreshed rules on worldwide travel to fortify their Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) exercises. 

In the meantime, in a different request, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that travellers showing up from specific nations would likewise have to compulsorily give a negative RTPCR test report. 

To enter Mumbai, worldwide voyagers from these nations will require a negative RTPCR report from Friday, September 3: 

• UK 

• Europe 

• Center East 

• South Africa 

• Brazil 

• Bangladesh 

• Botswana 

• China 

• Mauritius 

• Zimbabwe 

Travellers from different countries who need to leave the air terminal or load onto corresponding flights from any of the above-recorded countries should likewise show their particular RTPCR negative reports directed 72 hours before the excursion, as per the BMC. 

In addition, the voyagers will be needed to submit self-announcement structures at the air terminal and should go through a 14-day home isolate.