Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday passed an order allowing air passengers coming from outside the state to enter the Mumbai airport without needing a negative RT-PCR report.
The decision was taken in light of the fact that certain passengers taking flights to Delhi or other business places in the morning and returning on the same day could not get RT-PCR tests done.
"In view of the above, the domestic passengers who are fully vaccinated may be exempted from carrying negative RT-PCR test report while arriving in the city of Mumbai," BMC Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said in an order on Tuesday.
The government has said that domestic passengers who have been fully vaccinated will not be required to produce a COVID test report to enter Mumbai via air.
On May 12, the Maharashtra government had imposed restrictions on domestic passengers arriving in the state. As per the order, any passenger arriving by any mode of transport was required to carry a negative RT-PCR test conducted 48 hours prior to commencing the journey.
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai also issued similar directives pertaining to domestic passengers arriving in the city of Mumbai.
These restrictions were primarily imposed on the passengers arriving from Gujarat, Goa, Delhi, Rajasthan and Kerala. However, due to the increase in the number of cases, it decided to impose restrictions on all the passengers arriving in Mumbai from any part of the country.