MUMBAI: From January 1, passengers from Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, China and Korea is probably not allowed to board flights to India with no obligatory unfavourable RT-PCR certificates, in keeping with newest pointers issued on Thursday via the union ministry of To set up well being and circle of relatives welfare.
The new pointers will come into impact from 10 am on Sunday, January 1, 2023.
“A mandatory requirement for pre-departure RT-PCR testing (to be conducted within 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey) is being introduced for passengers arriving on all international flights from these countries,” mentioned the order. The ministry of civil aviation’s Air Suvidha portal can be made operational in order that the passengers touring into India from those nations can post/add unfavourable RT-PCR take a look at studies and post a self-declaration shape in this portal, it mentioned. The current follow of post-arrival random checking out of two% vacationers (regardless of port of departure) shall proceed, it added.
The new pointers will hit numerous Indian vacationers, with Thailand and Singapore being widespread global locations this yr with rankings of Indians. Close to 200 flights a week recently perform between Indian towns comparable to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Thai towns of Bangkok and Phuket. Indians now make up for the biggest vacationer arrivals into Thailand via air, in keeping with information shared just lately via the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Thailand has all the time been a well-liked vacation vacation spot with Indians, however pre-pandemic India stood at quantity 5 slot relating to vacationer arrivals. Today India is at quantity two, after Malaysia.
The overall selection of customer arrivals into Thailand for the 1 January-26 October, 2022, length used to be about 73 lakh and a few of the most sensible 5 supply markets had been Malaysia with 12 lakh arrivals adopted via India with 6.6 lakh guests.
The new pointers will come into impact from 10 am on Sunday, January 1, 2023.
“A mandatory requirement for pre-departure RT-PCR testing (to be conducted within 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey) is being introduced for passengers arriving on all international flights from these countries,” mentioned the order. The ministry of civil aviation’s Air Suvidha portal can be made operational in order that the passengers touring into India from those nations can post/add unfavourable RT-PCR take a look at studies and post a self-declaration shape in this portal, it mentioned. The current follow of post-arrival random checking out of two% vacationers (regardless of port of departure) shall proceed, it added.
The new pointers will hit numerous Indian vacationers, with Thailand and Singapore being widespread global locations this yr with rankings of Indians. Close to 200 flights a week recently perform between Indian towns comparable to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Thai towns of Bangkok and Phuket. Indians now make up for the biggest vacationer arrivals into Thailand via air, in keeping with information shared just lately via the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Thailand has all the time been a well-liked vacation vacation spot with Indians, however pre-pandemic India stood at quantity 5 slot relating to vacationer arrivals. Today India is at quantity two, after Malaysia.
The overall selection of customer arrivals into Thailand for the 1 January-26 October, 2022, length used to be about 73 lakh and a few of the most sensible 5 supply markets had been Malaysia with 12 lakh arrivals adopted via India with 6.6 lakh guests.