Covid fear in India: Govt issued new guidelines for international passengers at airports

Amid the surge of coronavirus cases in China, the Government of India has outlined several fresh guidelines. Covid fear in India: Govt issued new guidelines for international passengers at airports. Including the random sampling of international passengers for Covid-19 at airports from today, December 21.

According to Health Secretary Yashpal Garg, the Central government has already issued instructions to keep track of covid cases and related trends. “We will increase testing from 100 to 600 per day. We are taking precautions, I appeal to people to get vaccinated soon,” he added.

According to reports, there are currently 10 different variants of covid-19 in the country, of which the latest is Omicron subvariant BF.7. So far, at least four cases of this variant have been found in the country.

In the wake of rising Covid-19 cases in China and other countries, Union Health Ministry Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has asked state governments to submit samples of positive cases to genome sequencing laboratories on a priority basis.

The Union Health Ministry has written to the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the wake of rising cases of Covid-19 in Japan, United States, China, Republic of Korea and Brazil.

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In a statement issued by the Ministry of Health, secretaries said that detection of mutations through the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) network is essential. This will enable timely detection of new mutations and facilitate necessary public health measures.”