Ranchi: The State Government Government has freed foreign travelers from Covid Testing Mandatory on arrival at Jharkhand if they do not have a history of travel to countries that have been labeled as “risky” by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the new Omicron variant and also .
Bring a negative RT-PCR report.
Late on Tuesday night, Arun Health Secretary of Arun Kumar Singh wrote to all Deputy Commissioners and said, “Post testing arrival based on the self-declaration at Ranchi Airport can be released if a passenger traveling from the country ‘is at risk’.
However, if he has traveled To a risky country in the last 14 days, he will be asked for post-arrival testing and additional restrictions.
“According to the norm, all passengers who enter Ranchi Airport must produce RT-PCR negative reports mandator before the 72 hours of the start of their trip.
Those who do not carry negative reports included through Covid tests on arrival.
In accordance with who, 14 countries, including countries from Africa and Europe, have been designated as ‘risky’ after they reported the Omicron Virt of Sars-COV variant strain last month.
While Jharkhand has not reported cases of omicron strains, all international travelers must be tracked and tested by the district health team.
Everyone who has come into contact with positive Covid people must be tested within two days, orders are read.
Singh also asked the district to identify clusters or hotspots who had reported Spurt in recent infections and tested and search contacts in the area.
The direction of the Secretary also mandated the district to positively send samples of all Covid patients, who were positively tested after November 24 (including foreign travelers), for the genome sequencing to the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) in Bhubaneswar.
“There are no samples that must be sent to the private lab for genome sequencing,” read orders.
The country has so far sent 30 samples to ILS for genome sequencing.
Omicron: tourists from countries are not ‘risky’ to be released from Covid tests
