RT-PCR test report to be a must to travel from Mumbai, Bengaluru to Assam

GUWAHATI: The Assam government today issued fresh guidelines in view of the rise in number of COVID-19 cases in some parts of the country.

Accordingly, all air passengers from Mumbai and Bengaluru disembarking in any airport in Assam will mandatorily need to carry a negative RT-PCR report, conducted within 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey. The test report should be verifiable using QR code or otherwise.

Airlines have been advised to allow only those passengers to board at Mumbai and Bengaluru who are carrying the negative RT-PCR report.

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Any passenger from Mumbai and Bengaluru who arrives without satisfactory RT-PCR report will have to undergo paid COVID-19 test at airport and will wait in designated location inside airport premises at his own expense till the test result is available.

If the test result comes positive, the passenger will be shift to home isolation or hospital as per treatment protocol.

The protocol will come into effect from April 9.