Government May Ask People Flying Out Of The Country To Get Tested For COVID-19

Following Hong Kong's decisions to not allow Indian flights for two weeks as passengers tested positive, the Ministry of Civil Aviation plans to ask people flying out of the country to get tested for COVID-19. 

The Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said: “I saw in one place that a number of people were found positive and that country or that city wanting to suspend flights. Look, we ourselves are of that opinion. When I heard this, I told Civil Aviation Secretary that we are insisting for the RT-PCR test certificate from people coming in, I would encourage that even for people going out of India … we will insist that they have a test done prior to embarkation. And we will do that”