On Wednesday, the Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope announced that passengers will have to carry their Vaccination certificates of both doses and if required a Negative RT-PCR will be required to visit Maharashtra.
Tope released a statement which stated that, “Passengers who have taken two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine can land at any airport in Maharashtra without showing a negative RT-PCR report. However, they should have certificates stating they have taken both the doses.”
Till now, while traveling or visiting Maharashtra, it was mandatory for a negative RT-PCR test report. This test had to be taken 48 hours prior to the travel.
On Tuesday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation wrote a petition to the Maharashtra government that the mandatory rule on showing a negative RT-PCR test report must be relaxed for fully vaccinated passengers travelling to Mumbai.
BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte read the letter as, “Domestic passengers who are fully vaccinated may be exempted from carrying a negative test report while arriving in the city of Mumbai.”
As per Official reports, a negative RT-PCR report should be taken 48 hours prior to the journey was mandatory for all passengers arriving at the Mumbai International Airport earlier this year.
The Health Minister said the government is getting a similar demand to relax RT-PCR norm for passengers travelling to Maharashtra via bus and trains as well, later it said that, “The chief minister will take a final call on this.”
