Fully Vaccinated Flyers No Longer Need Negative Covid Report To Enter Mumbai

As coronavirus cases continue to decline and more people are getting the vaccine shots, the Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai issued a directive exempting fully vaccinated people to enter the city through the Mumbai airport.

Passengers flying to Mumbai, Maharashtra, who have received both the shots of COVID-19 vaccine will no longer need to carry negative RT-PCR test reports, the government said today. Amid rising COVID-19 cases during the deadly second wave in the country, the Maharashtra government had in May imposed restrictions on domestic passengers and asked them to carry a report of negative RT-PCR test conducted 48 hours prior to their journey. However, as coronavirus cases continue to decline, Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai Iqbal Singh Chahal today issued a directive exempting fully vaccinated people to enter the city through the Mumbai airport. In a letter to Maharashtra chief secretary, Mr Chahal said: "There are many passengers who are taking up journey to Delhi or other business places in the morning and they are returning back on the same day in the evening or next day morning, in such case conducting the RT-PCR test and getting the report becomes impossible."