Guwahati: Every air traveler and air entry into Assam who are not vaccinated, some vaccinated and children under 15 years will be tested mandator for Covid-19 on arrival from Sunday.
Passengers who are fully vaccinated will be allowed to go home without a test.
It will be advised to test themselves and upload their status in the NHM application.
“The main weapon to take Covid-19 is testing.
We have decided to increase testing from 30,000 every day at this time up to 50,000 and even more than 1 lakh and when the situation goes on.
This time we have decided that the passenger is not vaccinated and a single dose Will be tested for obligatory at the train station and the airport on arrival, “said Minister Himanta Buswa Sarma.
He said this time there would be a mandatory test of children under 15 years.
At the airport and train station.
“We have a golden rule not to test children up to 10 years but because children are infected so that we will test it.
Because there are no vaccines for children under 15 years, we have decided to test such travelers on arrival , “he added.” There will be no mandatory testing for travelers who enter multiple vaccinations that remember demonstrations at airports and train stations that can cause easy transmission for Omircron, “he said.
Double travelers who are vaccinated will be asked to test themselves at home.
“We allow home kits for testing.
They only need to upload their test status at 104 or the application of NHM residents,” he said.
Just released a double dose from the test at Rly Stns, the airport
