MUMBAI: The BMC on Wednesday updated its quarantine guidelines for international passengers travelling from UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Brazil.
One of important additions was that if travellers are found to be positive/ asymptomatic on arrival or day seven they can be shifted to private hospitals too unlike before where they had to be shifted only to isolation facility namely Seven Hills hospital if passengers were from UK and GT hospital if travellers were from Middle East, South Africa, Europe and Brazil.
The designated private hospitals are Bombay hospital, Raheja hospital, Hinduja hospital and Reliance hospital.
If travellers are found negative on day seven then discharge from institutional quarantine and they need to be send to mandatory home quarantine for another seven days. All contacts of those travellers who turn positive during home quarantine to be followed up isolated.
These guidelines are owing to increasing evidence that the mutant variants of SARS CoV2 in circulation in three countries namely UK, Brazil and South Africa.