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Centre eases Covid guidelines for international travelers

The Centre has further eased Covid-19 guidelines for international travelers as it has dropped requirements for RT-PCRtesting of a random 2 per cent subset of visitors, according to a communique issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday.

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Something of this nature will be necessary if travel around the world is not to get bogged down in the minutiae of bilateral transport arrangements and creation of bio-bubbles that have set the tone of international travel in the past few months.

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While IATA would like its recommendation of affordable rapid antigen test results, if accepted by the country of origin and by the destination country under a globally-accepted set of standards, to be made part of the travel protocol, this may pose a problem, not the least because of the unreliability of these tests.