7 days paid quarantine for international passengers arriving at Delhi

▴ 7 days paid quarantine for international passengers arriving at Delhi
7 days paid Institutional Quarantine followed by another 7 days home quarantine for international arrivals at Delhi airport

Passengers arriving in Delhi by International flights will have to undergo a seven-day institutional quarantine at their own cost. The Delhi Airport has informed that as per the new guidelines for Flight passengers such International passengers will also have to undertake a seven-day Home quarantine after the Institutional Quarantine.

The Delhi Airport has said that as per the d guidelines, passengers who arrive by international flights and plan to stay on in the Delhi-NCR will have to mandatorily undergo a primary health screening by Airport Health Officials. It said, the passengers will have take the primary thermal screening test at the Airport and the secondary screening at a Delhi government post.

Passengers heading to other states will be screened by health officials from their respective states at designated places inside the airport premises. The state health officials from UP, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are positioned at the separate triage facilities and passengers belonging to these states will have to at their respective state posts. Passengers can seek exemption from quarantine by filling an exemption form and discussing their case with government officials.

The state governments have been authorized to exempt institutional quarantine in cases including for pregnant women, death cases in family, serious illness and parents accompanied by children below 10 years.

Meanwhile, all domestic passengers will have to undergo mandatory thermal screening at the exit gates. Symptomatic passengers will be isolated and sent to the containment zone and later to a hospital by the airline authorities.

The Delhi airport has informed that passengers arriving on an international flight under the Vande Bharat Mission, will be allowed to board the domestic flights operated under it. However, for boarding any other domestic flights such passengers will have to obtain an exemption certificate.

Meanwhile, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that the difference between the active cases and the recovered cases is progressively increasing and the total recoveries reached 1.8 times of the active cases. It said, a total of 7,24578 people affected with coronavirus have recovered in the country so far and with this, the recovery rate reached 62.72 percent. Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 402259.

Briefing media in New Delhi today, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said, India has 837 cases per million in comparison which is lower than the global average. It said India registered 20.4 deaths per million. The Ministry said the case fatality rate also declined to 2.43 percent and 22 States and Union Territories have a lower fatality rate than the national average of fatality rate.

Tags : #InternationalPassengers #InternationalArrivals #HomeQuarantine #InstitutionalQuarantine #ThermalScreening #NationalCoronaNews

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