Image Source : PTI (FILE PHOTO) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
Travellers coming from the UK to the nationwide capital must bear a seven-day institutional quarantine and a seven-day residence quarantine even when they check damaging for COVID-19 on arrival, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal introduced on Friday.
“To protect Delhiites from exposure to the virus from the UK, the Delhi government has taken important decisions. Travellers coming from UK will have to mandatorily undergo a self-paid RT-PCR test on arrival at the airport,” the chief minister stated.
“All those arriving from UK who test positive will be isolated at an isolation facility. Negative ones will be taken to a quarantine facility for seven days, followed by seven days of home quarantine,” he stated.
Kejriwal had on Thursday urged the Centre to increase the suspension of flights to and from the United Kingdom because the nation now battles a variant pressure of the coronavirus first detected there.
On December 23, the central authorities suspended flights from the UK, with all passengers coming from there having to be examined on arrival at airports. The suspension of UK flights was later prolonged as much as January 8.
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