Asymptomatic Travelers to Maintain a 7-Day Home Quarantine, Not 14 Days
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asymptomatic travelers arriving in New Delhi will have to undergo only seven
days of home quarantine, as against the earlier requirement of 14 days.
In a notification dated June 3, 2020, the
Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has said that the all asymptomatic
passengers, either entering or de-boarding in the NCT of Delhi, will have to go
for a home quarantine him/her self for 7 days. The order further said that the
airport, railway and transport departments will submit passenger manifests to the
office of the principal secretary of revenue department on daily basis. It
added that the district magistrates shall ensure that the passengers residing
in their jurisdiction remain in home quarantine for seven days.
The notification came on a day when the
national capital recorded yet another highest single-day spike in Covid-19
cases. A total of 1,513 new coronavirus cases were reported, taking the tally
to 23, 645 including 13,497 active cases.
With nine more deaths, the toll has
climbed to 606. Two hundred and ninety -nine corona patients recovered from the
disease on Wednesday, taking the count of those cured / discharged to 9,542.
Delhi follows Karanataka which, too, has reduced the mandatory period of
quarantine from 14 to seven days for asymptomatic travelers coming to the state
except for those coming from Maharashtra.
Uttarakhand, on the other hand, has
increased the mandatory quarantine period for people coming from 75 “high load
Covid-19 cities” including Delhi from 14 to 21 days amid a rise in the number
of people testing positive for coronavirus in the state. The government on
Wednesday issued a fresh standard operating procedure (SOP) for people coming
to the state by any mode of transport from the list of 75 cities designated as
high load Covid-19 ones which include major cities like, Chennai, Mumbai,
Delhi, Kolkata, Noida, Varanasi, Jaipur, Indore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Agra,
Lucknow, Jaipur and Hyderabad.
