No 7-day home quarantine, list of 'at-risk' countries pruned in new rules for foreign fliers

India announced revised guidelines for international passengers arriving in the country from February 14.

According the the new rules, apart from uploading the RT-PCR negative report(taken within 72 hrs prior to undertaking the journey), passengers will now also have the option of uploading full primary vaccination certificates.

The demarcation of ‘at-risk’ countries has also been removed, meaning that passengers from those countries do not need to give samples and await their results upon arrival.


The government has now added a 14-day self-monitoring recommendation post-arrival as against the 7-day mandatory home quarantine from earlier.

Need for undertaking RT-PCR test on 8th day & uploading the same on Air Suvidha portal has also been dispensed with.

Random sampling of 2% of international travellers from all countries will be conducted on arrival. Travellers can give sample & are allowed to leave the airport.

If tested positive, samples will be sent for genomic testing at INSACOG laboratory network.