Covid report mandatory for flyers to Bengal

April 23, 2021 20:39

Air passengers from Delhi and four other states will have to carry Covid-negative certificates, not older than 72 hours, to enter West Bengal from April 26, the state government has informed the Centre.

In a letter to the civil aviation department, the Bengal government wrote that passengers from Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh -- all badly hit the coronavirus pandemic's second wave -- will have to produce a negative RT-PCR test report to travel to the state.

The rule already exists for passengers from worst-hit Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana.

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