Mumbai: International passengers can skip quarantine if fully vaccinated for Covid-19

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International passengers arriving in Mumbai can seek exemption from institutional quarantine if they have taken both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, as per a tweet by Air India Express. This is only applicable for passengers landing in Mumbai, adds the tweet.

"All they need to do is to produce both the vaccine certificates and a self-declaration form," read the tweet.

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Recently, the Union Health Ministry had written to states for providing relaxation to some specified categories including Olympic-bound athletes and students needing foreign travel for education, in getting the second dose of Covishield from the stipulated 12-16 week gap from the first dose. The Health Ministry said it had got representation for such relaxations and had conveyed the SOPs (standard operating procedure) for administering the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to the states.