New guidelines for international passengers coming to India
According to the new guidelines, international travellers must submit a self-declaration form before their journey. This form must be uploaded on the Air Suvidha portal.
A new set of guidelines for international passengers coming to India will be in place from Monday onwards amid mounting evidence that mutant variants of SARS-CoV-2 are in circulation in many countries.
According to the new guidelines, international travellers must submit a self-declaration form before their journey. This form must be uploaded on the Air Suvidha portal.Â
The passengers must upload a negative RT-PCR report. The RT-PCR test will have to be conducted within 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey.
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Airlines will only board those passengers who have filled in the SDF on the Air Suvidha portal and uploaded their negative RT-PCR test report.
The new guideline states that all travellers arriving from/transiting through flights originating in United Kingdom, Europe or Middle East shall be mandatorily subjected to self-paid confirmatory molecular tests on arrival at Indian airports concerned (port of entry).