Bhubaneswar: People who come to the country will no longer be asked to bring their RT-PCR negative reports or certificates to prove that they are fully vaccinated.
The state government on Wednesday revoked the rules, which have made it mandatory to request a negative test report RT-PCR or the final vaccination certificate of the people who enter the country.
The latest order in this case was issued by the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradip Kumar Jena.
It reads, “the entry of people to Odisha from other countries by producing a quick negative report of antigen / RT-PCR or the final vaccination certificate with this withdrawn.” Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has made a testing kiosk at Biju Patnaik International Airport to filter people on their arrival, followed by a test on Wednesday.
It has also established a counter at the city train station, which has been revoked for a long time.
Elsewhere at the district level, the Nuabada government has installed a testing kiosk at the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border checkpoint and also in the Tribune of Railway and Bus.
Migrant workers are also played at the Kantabanji train station in Balalangir until now.
BMC will issue a separate letter to remove the testing kiosk from the airport.
The airport authority has also received a letter from SRC.
“We have received SRC orders request a withdrawal of testing facilities.
Starting on Thursday, no passengers will be filtered at the airport on arrival,” said a BMC official.
However, visitors to malls / restaurants in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Puri, must produce RT-PCR negative reports or double dose vaccination certificates to be allowed to enter.
However, the same implementation remains bad without asking for a certificate.
Customers also do not volunteer to produce VAX certificates.
Twin City Police said they had made a surprised check and put on a fine on the offenders.
The rules are introduced recently.
The police were asked to make surpise checks at the hotel to see if the people at Dine-In Restaura had a vaccination certificate.
Punishment was also forced.
“In terms of vaccine certificates, it is impossible to go to every hotel and ask for every individual customer.
Random checks will continue.
However, people need to be aware,” said Commissioner of the City of Twin Soumendra Priyadarshi.
The Social Campaign of Bisang Mohanty said contrary to allow the entry of people to Odisha without Covid testing but asked for residents to produce both dose vaccine certificates to enter hotels and malls.
One of them is a loss to understand how to show a vaccine certificate in the mall and the hotel will be implemented, his comments.
RT-PCR -VE report, Vax Certs is not needed to enter Odisha
