February 27: As the Covid-19 virus is surging in a few states including Kerala and Maharashtra, the Indian capital state Delhi has taken a decision on presenting a mandatory negative Covid test report for the people travelling from 5 states before entering the UT. As per the official sources of the Delhi government, these orders will remain in place from midnight of 26 February to noon of March 15.
The submitted RT-PCR test report must not be older than 72 hours of travel. These five states are Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. Also, these orders are applicable to people who are travelling to Delhi via buses, flights, or trains.
Not only Delhi, but several other states have also made it a case for the visitors to furnish a negative RT-PCR test report if they are travelling from states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh.
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ANI reports quoting the sources, “Delhi government took the decision because, in the past week, 86 per cent of the new virus cases have emerged from these states. Nodal officers in these states will be asked to verify COVID-19 negative reports from tests taken up to 72 hours before the flight, prior to allowing passengers to leave for Delhi.”
This step was taken as Delhi recorded 220 Covid-19 cases earlier on Thursday that was the highest number of single-day spikes in February, luckily, no death was registered. This was 4th time in February month when the single-day death toll stood nil this month.