Covid cases count daily rises in India. In between Indian government giving much relief to international travellers arriving in India, the Centre revised guidelines has decided not to make a stay at the Covid isolation facility mandatory. So, now if Covid positive passengers arrive in India from any country, he/she will not mandatorily be managed at an isolation facility today (January 22).
India’s daily Covid curve showed marginal improvement today as the country reported 3.37 lakh cases, which is around 2.7 per cent lower than yesterday. With a tally of 3.89 crore cases, India is the second worst-hit country after the US. The active cases have increased to 21,13,365, the highest in 237 days.
The active cases now comprise 5.43 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has decreased to 93.31 per cent. The daily positivity rate has dropped from 17.94% to 17.22% while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 16.65 per cent. In revised guidelines However, such passengers will have to quarantine themselves at home by following the Covid-19 protocols.
In its revised ‘Guidelines for International Arrivals’, the Centre said foreign arrivals, who test positive, will still have to undergo home quarantine for seven days even after they test negative, and undertake RT-PCR test on the eighth day of arrival in India. Earlier, the rules were that foreign arrivals coming from any country, including those considered ‘at-risk’, would be managed at an isolation facility and treated according to the standard protocols.
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In the revised guidelines, this clause that mandated staying at ‘isolation facility’ upon arrival, has been removed. The government said still passengers found to be symptomatic during screening will be immediately isolated and taken to a medical facility. If tested positive, their contacts shall be identified and managed according to Covid norms.
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