ICMR’s New Guidelines: Healthy Individuals Don’t Need RT-PCR Test to Travel Inter-State
The Indian medical council of research brings a new set of guidelines for the RT-PCR testing amid covid-19 surge and an uncontrollable rise in every day’s cases. As per ICMR's new guidelines of covid-19 testing, healthy individuals now don’t need an RT-PCR report to travel across the country.
"The need of RT-PCR test [for] healthy individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel may be completely removed," said ICMR in the advisory. All asymptomatic domestic travelers must follow Covid-19 appropriate behaviors, it added.
RT-PCR tests are more accurate than the rapid antigen test. And till now, individuals traveling across the country needed a negative report of RT-PCR to cross the borders. ICMR advised ignoring the RT-PCR test report if the person is in quarantine for 10 days and di...