In the event that travelers show symptoms compatible with the virus, or test positive, they will be quarantined. The measure also applies to people from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand.
As of this Saturday, by order of its health authorities, India will carry out a mandatory PCR test on all passengers coming from China.
Although for months Beijing has reported numbers of two, three or four digits of infections, the reality would be very different.
According to an analysis by the British health research firm Airfinity Ltd., released on Thursday, China would currently be registering 1 million cases and 5 thousand deaths per day.
The figures, not recognized by China, are known at a time when the zero covid policy was relaxed following months of protests, the largest in recent times in the Asian giant.
Along with China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand are the other four Asian territories for which India has also ordered a mandatory entry PCR, amid outbreaks that worry local authorities.
The anticovid tests “of passengers coming from abroad, including China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Japan, South Korea, began today at the Delhi International Airport,” the Indian Minister of Health, Mansukh, reported on his Twitter account. Mandaviya.
Sample test of corona of passengers coming from abroad including China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Japan, South Korea has been started at Delhi International Airport today.
All necessary steps are being taken in view of the increasing effect of Corona. pic.twitter.com/J4ZERQAuWU
— Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandaviya) December 24, 2022
And if the PCR comes out positive?
In case travelers show symptoms compatible with the virus or test positive, they will be quarantinedconfirmed the minister.
The measure is in addition to random checks on 2% of international travelers entering India that the government established on Thursday, in an attempt to strengthen surveillance and prevent the increase in infections in the Asian country.
Despite the fact that this country of 1,400 million inhabitants detected less than 200 daily infections of covid-19 in recent days, the rebound in cases in neighboring China and other neighboring territories raised the alert among the authorities for fear that it would lead to the entry of new variants.
India has been one of the countries most affected during the pandemic, accounting for more than 44.6 million cases since the start of the health emergency and more than 530,000 official deaths.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that the death toll in this country might rise to 4.7 million people.
India experienced a virulent second wave of coronavirus that peaked in mid-May, with more than 400,000 cases and 4,000 deaths a day, putting an overload on its health system that left dramatic images of overcrowded hospitals and crematoria.
