NRIs unhappy with seven-day quarantine norms
The Hindu
They request State government to withdraw order
Pravasi organisations have objected to the seven-day quarantine norms for those who return home from abroad in the wake of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 leading to more infections.
In a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, K.V. Shamsudheen, chairman, Sharjah-based Pravasi Bandhu Welfare Trust, said that all the passengers arriving from abroad had been vaccinated from the country they were residing in. They also had a valid certificate for this. Boarding the plane is permitted only if an RT-PCR test negative certificate was produced within the stipulated time period. Despite all these preventive steps, international passengers were being asked to go on quarantine for a week after arrival, he said.