KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 20
Even when the Government of India has decided to allow travellers from 82 countries, including Nepal, to upload their certificate of complete COVID-19 vaccination instead of prior RT-PCR negative results, the Government of Nepal requires travellers from Nepal to submit their negative PCR test results while travelling to India.
Nepali nationals travelling to India are required to upload their vaccination certificate on Air Suvidha website.
Spokesperson for COV- ID-19 Crisis Management Coordination Centre Sunita Nepal said her office had made a policy decision and written to the Ministry of Health and Population to update its travel rules. "It mean that Nepal can wave off PCR requirement if the destination country has also waved off such a requirement,"
Nepal said, adding that the line ministry was expected to decide soon to remove PCR requirement.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population Sangeeta Mishra said the ministry had not received any formal letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the COVID-19 Crisis Management Coordination Centre on changing COVID-19 protocols for travel to India. She added that travel protocols would be changed once such a communication was received by the agencies concerned.
"Within two to three days PCR test will be waved off for those travelling to India," Mishra said. She said the CCMCC was following the same protocols as were followed by destination countries.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 21, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
