Kochi airport launches Rapid PCR testing facility for passengers, outcomes to be out in half-hour

By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Cochin International Airport (CIAL) has arrange a Rapid PCR testing facility for passengers visiting the UAE following an advisory by the Dubai Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management {that a} COVID-negative certificates obtained earlier than 48 hours of the journey is necessary to journey to the Gulf nation.

A press communique launched on June 19, asserting an replace on Dubai’s journey protocol by the Dubai Supreme Committee, mandated a Rapid PCR damaging certificates for passengers travelling from India to Dubai. It said that passengers should have a Rapid PCR damaging certificates taken inside 48 hours earlier than departure.

However, the up to date protocol instructed that passengers to Dubai from India should take a Rapid PCR check inside 4 hours earlier than the flight departure. CIAL has put in the ability in collaboration with Sandor Medicaid Pvt. Ltd, chosen by Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd for the Rapid PCR assessments.

The facility has the capability to check 200 individuals in a single hour. The outcome can be obtainable in half-hour. Further particulars on this new testing system can be introduced by the authorities involved. CIAL has additionally stored prepared the ability for doing antigen assessments on different passengers travelling overseas if the necessity arises.

As per the Dubai journey protocol, even after taking a standard RT-PCR and Rapid PCR, the passenger has to bear a PCR check on arrival at Dubai Airport and will observe institutional quarantine till they obtain their check outcomes, that are anticipated inside 24 hours. Outbound passengers from India ought to have acquired two doses of a vaccine accepted by UAE authorities.

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