Travellers arriving from countries, including China, will have to show a negative COVID-19 test to enter the country.
India has mandated a COVID-19 negative test report for travellers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand, the federal health minister said.
Passengers from those countries would be put under quarantine if they showed symptoms of COVID-19 or tested positive, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted on Saturday, as he posted photographs of tests being conducted at the international airport in the capital, New Delhi.
India – which has reported the second highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world, at 44 million, behind the United States to date – on Saturday also started randomly testing 2 percent of international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19.
Mandaviya cited an increase in cases in neighbouring China for the…
