Bengaluru “In view of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Karnataka government has issued a new set of guidelines for transnational passengers arriving in the state According to the announcement issued on October 25, passengers coming from countries including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand and Zimbabwe would need to follow fresh measures on appearance in India, includingpost-arrival testing.
As per the new guidelines, all passengers planning to travel to Karnataka have to submit a tone- protestation form on the online Air Suvidha portal before the slated trip They’re also supposed to upload a negative RT-PCR COVID test report on the portal, conducted within 72 hours prior to the trip. Each passenger should also submit a protestation with respect to the authenticity of the test report. Eventually, they should give an undertaking at the portal or to the Ministry of Civil Aviation through the concerned airlines before their trip that they would abide by the decision of the applicable government to suffer home- counterblockade/ tone- health monitoring,” said the announcement.
The state government asked the concerned airlines/ agencies to give a list of do’s and don’ts, along with tickets to the trippers and instructed them to allow boarding by only those passengers who have filled in the Self Declaration Form on the Air Suvidha portal, and uploaded the negative RT-PCR test report It further instructs field authorities to advise passengers to download Arogya Setu on their phones Still, he/ she shall be insulated as per protocol,” added the indirect,”If any passenger reports symptoms of COVID-19 during flight Asking the airlines staff to follow all COVID-19 affiliated guidelines, the government said that in case of any characteristic person during the webbing, the field authorities should insulate that person and take it to the medical installation as per protocol.”His/ her connections should also be linked as per protocol,” added the indirect.
As per the guidelines, if a completely vaccinated person is travelling from a country that along with India accepts WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccines, they shall be allowed to leave the field and suffer tone-monitoring for two weeks In case of partial or no vaccination, they will have to submit a negative RT-PCR report, suffer a mandatory home counterblockade for a week and a pretest on the eighthday.However, they’re advised to tone- examiner further for seven days, If negative.
” Trippers under home counterblockade or tone- health monitoring, if develop signs and symptoms suggestive of COVID-I9 or test positive for COVID-19 onre-testing, they will incontinently tone- insulate and report to the in the nearest health installation or call National helpline number (1075)/ State Helpline Number,” added the indirect Transnational trippers via seaports/ land anchorages will also have to follow the same protocols, except no online enrollment is available and a tone- protestation form must be given to concerned ocean anchorages/ land anchorages authorities of the Government of India.