Port Blair, April 15: Shri
Suneel Anchipaka, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman District and Shri
Ravi Kumar Singh, IPS, Superintendent of Police, South Andaman District convened
a meeting with all the Airline Operators of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and
stressed the need to take urgent action to curb the surge of COVID cases in the
District and briefed that strict and vigilant protocols are required at the
Veer Savarkar International Airport.
The A & N Administration
has made full proof arrangements for compulsory Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) of all
incoming passengers at Veer Savarkar International Airport in addition to the
mandatory RTPCR negative test report which has to be carried while travelling
to Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Airline Operators have
been directed that RAT forms in prescribed format should be filled by the
passenger before de-boarding the aircraft and the same has to be shown at the
testing center before RAT test which shall be ensured by the airlines concerned.
It was informed that for
facilitating the inbound passengers at VSI airport, two COVID testing centres
have been set up at School Line Senior Secondary School and the ITF ground,
Dairy Farm wherein sufficient testing teams have been deployed.
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