India places UK visitors under quarantine restrictions in tit-for-tat move
Al Edwards / Our Today
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India will be enforcing a 10-day COVID-19 quarantine protocol on all British nationals coming into the country.
This new regulation begins from October 4 in what is a tit-for-tat reciprocal move in response to the UK’s decision to place a 10-day quarantine on Indians coming into the United Kingdom (UK).
India is insisting that all Brits coming into the country, irrespective of their vaccination status, will have to undertake a pre-departure COVID-19 RT-PCR test within 72 hours before travel, followed by similar tests upon arrival at the Indian airport which is to be followed by another RT-PCR test on the eighth day after arrival in India.
Visitors from the UK will now have to be in “mandatory quarantine at home or in the destination address for 10 days after arrival in India”.
‘NON-RECOGNITION OF COVISHIELD A DISCRIMINATING POLICY’
Generally there is very little tourism traffic from the UK to India but many Indians travel to the UK for study, business or to visit relatives.
The UK’s COVID-19 rules require travellers from India to quarantine for 10 days, even if they have received both jabs of Covishield, the Indian-made vaccine.
India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said: “The non-recognition of Covishield is a discriminating policy and impacts our citizens travelling to the UK.”
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