India makes 10-day quarantine mandatory for UK visitors in reciprocal measure

Agencies | New Delhi

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 India has decided to impose reciprocity on United Kingdom nationals arriving in India from the UK, said sources on Friday. The new regulations will come into effect from October 4 and will be applicable to all UK nationals arriving here.

From October 4, all UK nationals arriving in India from the UK, irrespective of their vaccination status, will have to undertake the following measures:

Pre-departure Covid-19 RT-PRC test within 72 hours before travel

Covid-19 RT-PCR test on arrival at airport

Covid-19 RT-PCR test on Day 8 after arrival

Mandatory quarantine at home or in the destination address for 10 days after arrival in India

The sources further added that authorities in the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Civil Aviation would be taking steps to implement the new measures.

The new guidelines have been announced in view of the UK govt's restrictions, placing Indians who are vaccinated with Covishield in the category of ‘unvaccinated’.

While it has relaxed the rules for those vaccinated with two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the same version of the vaccine being manufactured in India by Pune-based Serum Institute of India has been kept out of the list.