Government will make negative covid test mandatory for passengers coming from China

Due to the rapid increase in corona cases in China in the last few weeks, the central government has started taking precautionary measures. In this episode, negative RT-PCR can be made mandatory for passengers coming from China. This rule is likely to come into effect from next week. Apart from this, 72 hours prior RT-PCR can also be made mandatory for passengers coming from some other countries.

A source with knowledge of the matter said that there is a possibility of making negative Covid test mandatory for passengers coming from China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Singapore. Health experts say that the cases of corona may increase in the country from next month. However, the Health Ministry has said that despite the increase in corona cases, the number of patients admitted to the hospital will remain low. In the last two days, 6,000 of the passengers coming to India from abroad have been tested for Covid and 39 people have been found infected with this virus.

beginning of the pandemic China is considered from Corona cases are increasing rapidly again in China and due to its BF.7 variant, the situation there is worsening. A large number of patients are admitted in the hospitals and the health systems are overwhelmed. coming from china reports Has shocked the whole world. This week, a video from a hospital in China was shared on social media, in which it can be seen that a doctor was so exhausted due to the workload that he collapsed in his chair. Experts claim that in the next 90 days, 60 percent of China’s population and 10 percent of the world’s population may get infected.

This is the situation in China when this country follows the ‘Zero-Covid Policy’. Under this, a lockdown is imposed when there is a spurt in the cases of corona. Epidemiologist Eric Feigel-Ding has used the term thermonuclear bad for the bad condition of Corona in China. This means that hospitals in China are overburdened and cannot handle it.

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