NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya,  visited the Indira Gandhi International airport, New Delhi  to review arrangements for screening and testing of international passengers in light of the recent surge in cases of COVID-19 in some countries.

The Health minister reviewed Air Suvidha system and RT-PCR testing facilities for international passengers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi on Monday. He reviewed the RT-PCR testing mechanism and the Air Suvidha portal, which has begun from 1st of this month in view of the recent spike in cases of COVID-19 in some countries. 

He also visited the Airport Health Organization office and interacted with the officials. The health minister said that passengers arriving from 6 high-risk countries are now mandatorily required to upload their negative RT-PCR test reports in the Air Suvidha portal within 72 hours of undertaking their journey to India. 

These countries are namely China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. The travelers from other countries are being randomly tested at the airports upon their arrival in India. The health minister said, this is being done to ensure that genome sequencing of any positive case is promptly done to understand the strength and behaviour of any new variants.

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