Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday issued quarantine guidelines for passengers arriving from Middle-East or European countries at the Pune Lohegaon Airport. The decision comes after the new strain of coronavirus making its mark in a number of European countries.
The Maharashtra government has also decided to impose a seven-hour night curfew in urban limits around the state from Tuesday (December 22) till January 5, 2021 as a precautionary measure.
Here’s what you need to know if you are arriving in Pune from Middle-East or European countries:
- It is mandatory for all the passengers arriving from Middle-East and European nations to undergo institutional quarantine at their own expenses in the nearby hotels for seven days.
- lf the passenger is found symptomatic on arrival, then he or she will be admitted to Naidu Hospital.
- No RT-PCR test will be conducted on the arrival. However, it will be conducted during 5th to 7th day at the hotels at the cost of the quarantined passengers
- lf the report of the test is found negative, the passenger will be discharged from the institutional quarantine.
- If the test result is found positive but is asymptomatic then the passenger will be asked to stay in the hotel.
- To ferry passengers from airport to hotel, PMPML bus service will be available.
- The passports of all the passengers will be deposited with the hotel and returned at the time of discharge from the hotel quarantine.
- These guidelines are applicable to all passengers arriving at Pune Lohegaon Airport from Middle East and European Countries (including transit passengers) irrespective of their further travel plans, till further orders.