Kolkata: Apart from strict norms in place – Someone must multiply or test the negative Covid – for leaflets, the fact that a positive boy Covid managed to take flight has triggered worries that doctors, health and trips and trade communities have grappled more From a year – a very easy checking process of RT-PCR results / domestic leaflet vaccination certificate.
In accordance with the norm, international passengers traveling from risky countries or with a history of traveling at risk in two weeks need to be obtained for RT-PCR tests on arrival and also waiting for reports at the airport being allowed to continue to go home or take a transit flight.
Those who come from non-risk countries and undergo RT-PCR tests do not need to wait for the report.
They can get out of the airport immediately after sending a swab sample and the authorities tell them later about the test results, which happens in this case.
Since November this year, Bengal has made it mandatory for every domestic tourist above the age of two, to have a double-dose vaccination certificate or RT-PC negative report conducted within 72 hours to fly to Bengal.
While many parents have a reservation to let their children undergo a strict RT-PCR swab collection process, according to the rules, no one can ride a flight to Kolkata without RPCR negative reports.
However, leaflets at Kolkata Airport complained that their certificate was not checked at any time.
“At Kolkata airport, no one asked RT-PCR report.
Last month, I had trouble getting a RT-PCR report for my six-year-old son.
But when we arrived at the airport, no one asked the same thing in Delhi and No one asked him when we landed in Kolkata.
I asked for some officials who would check it but they all said it wasn’t their job.
If you won’t check it out, why did you force us to live all these problems? “Asked a young entrepreneur from Ballygunge.
While the airline authority said it was not their job to check the RT-PCR certificate, Kolkata airport official said the responsibility lies in the health department official to check it out.
The health department personnel at the airport claims they are too short to check every passenger.
“It is impossible for us to examine every domestic passenger.
However, we conduct random checks about passengers as and when needed,” said the health department staff at the airport.
Health experts, meanwhile, suggested that the state government and airport authorities must improve responsibility and begin to check vaccination and RT-PCR certificates more carefully, especially because the airport is set to have more international passengers who come directly to Kolkata or Through transit from other cities for the next few weeks because of the winter celebrations in the West.
“There must be proper coordination between all departments.
There should be a process requested by leaflets to reach the beginning and officials need to be assigned to check the certificate both at the entri gate or at check-in or at the hostel gate,” said a doctor and Frequent Flyer.
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