Mumbai: In view of the increasing case of new variant Omicron of Corona, BMC has also ordered travelers coming from Dubai to do home quarantine for seven days in Mumbai. Have given. BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has issued a special guideline for passengers coming from Dubai. According to the guideline, passengers coming from Dubai will be kept in strict quarantine for seven days in Mumbai. However, passengers coming from there have been exempted from the RTPCR test at the airport.
BMC has already implemented home quarantine for travelers coming from South Africa, European countries and Middle-East countries after the Omicron variant spread across the world.
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BMC issued special guideline
BMC has received information that citizens coming from other countries with restrictions including South Africa are coming to Mumbai via Dubai. Therefore, a special guideline has been issued for the passengers coming from Dubai. According to the guideline, citizens coming from Dubai have been ordered to directly home quarantine without doing RTPCR test at the airport.
Prohibition on using public transport
If the citizens coming to Mumbai airport are going to go out of Mumbai, then the District Magistrate will arrange special trains for them and drop them till the destination. Such passengers have also been banned from using public transport. Similarly, the airport authority will be responsible for the passengers using the connecting flight from Mumbai. RTPCR test will be done after the passengers of Dubai are in home quarantine for seven days. When the report comes positive, they will be sent to the institutional quarantine.