Govt relaxes home quarantine rule for crew carrying Covid-19 patient

Airline executives said that such a rule created hindrance in operations as on most days coronavirus positive cases were detected in multiple flight of the same airline

The central government has relaxed a rule that made it mandatory for airline crew to undergo home quarantine for 14 days if they had a Covid-19 positive case in the aircraft.

The government has left it to airlines to decide the steps to be followed in such cases. The dilution was done by Ministry of Health after airlines raised concerns over shortage of crew as Covid-19 cases among air passengers increased. 

“Significant number of crew was becoming non-operational due to the quarantine rules,” Ministry of Civil Aviation wrote to the Ministry of Health on June 3.

The airlines will now conduct their own