The efforts to curb the spread of new variant Omicron in the country has triggered yet another unexpected issue. The guidelines have been imposed at international airports to control the Omicron threat in India has turned a bane as the airport premises flooded with long queues of people at the airports and the rush of peak timings seem to be getting worse.
As per the Centre’s new travel guidelines issued earlier last week, passengers coming from ‘at-risk’ nations have to mandatorily undergo PCR test and two per cent of passengers arriving from other countries would have to take the test on a random basis. In the line of which, the passengers will have to wait for the results before leaving the airport or taking a connecting flight.
Scenes yesterday at Delhi airport #Covid hotspot pic.twitter.com/SoM6RNumYO
— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) December 5, 2021
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The airport authorities can be seen struggling to enforce social distancing as people squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder to get their COVID test results. Social media flooded with photos and videos of people from the crowded areas, where people could be seen flouting social distancing amid the spread of the new COVID-19 variant.
