indiaUpdated: Aug 27, 2020 08:46 ISTThe Uttar Pradesh government has done away with the seven days’ mandatory institutional quarantine for international travellers arriving in the state provided they fulfil certain conditions amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Foreign travellers who get RT-PCR tests of their samples done 96 hours before boarding a flight and test negative will be exempted from the seven days’ institutional quarantine, he said. The central government amended the quarantine guidelines for domestic as well as the international travellers and the state government made changes accordingly. According to the earlier guidelines, international travellers had to go for seven days’ institutional quarantine followed by seven days’ home quarantine, he said. Earlier, domestic travellers coming to UP by train or the flight had to remain in 14 days’ compulsory home quarantine if they were not leaving the state within seven days.

Source: Hindustan Times August 27, 2020 03:17 UTC