Flying from UAE to Mumbai? Check these new rules for COVID-19 testing, quarantine

Flying from UAE to Mumbai? Check these new rules for COVID-19 testing, quarantine

Dubai: Not all passengers flying from the UAE to Mumbai in the western Indian state of Maharashtra will have to undergo a COVID-19 test on arrival and a few categories of passengers can also get exemption from the mandatory institutional quarantine stipulated by the state government, Gulf News can reveal. Passengers from the UAE and other countries in the Middle East flying to Mumbai, the financial capital of India, have to follow a set of new rules that are entirely different from those currently being implemented in other Indian cities. Gulf News reached out to the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) in Mumbai to get clarifications about the travel rules applicable to passengers flying from the UAE after the Indian government announced a new Standard Operating Procedure for international passengers arriving in India from February 23 onwards. The following are the latest rules related to COVID-19 tests, quarantine and exemptions for passengers from the Middle East, flying to Mumbai, as explained by MCGM and CSMIA. All international passengers to Mumbai must upload a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test report issued within 72 hours of departure on the Air Suvidha portal. They should