No more 7-day home quarantine for foreign travellers as govt eases rules

Countries 'at-risk' tag goes, along with it the mandatory sample testing

With Covid cases declining, the current picture is that of optimism and caution, the government said as it considerably relaxed the restrictions on international travellers on Thursday, including no mandatory seven-day isolation or compulsory RT-PCR testing for fully vaccinated.

“We are below the first surge level. Overall positivity is now below 5 per cent. Pandemic situation is optimistic…but then this is not yet the time to be less vigilant, we cannot lower our guard,” V K Paul, member-health, NITI Aayog, and chairman of National Covid Task Force, said.

International travellers would not have to mandatorily home quarantine for seven days