COVID-19: Negative RT-PCR test report mandatory to enter Uttarakhand, read details

People travelling to Uttarakhand from other states need to carry a negative RT-PCR test certificate, the Tirath Singh Rawat-led state government said on Tuesday. 

Meanwhile, due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Dehradun, the district administration has declared two areas of two cities as containment zones on Monday. After the administration found coronavirus positive patients in the Nehru Colony area of Dehradun city, the district administration declared the area as a containment zone.

The administration has imposed a lockdown in the Gumaniwala area of Rishikesh's Gumaniwala under the Uttarakhand Epidemic Disease COVID-19 Regulation 2020 and the Disaster Management Act 2005.

Uttarakhand recorded its highest single-day spike in coronavirus infections with 366 fresh cases on Sunday. With this, the cumulative cases of the virus shot up to 99,881, and the active infections reached 1,600 in the Himalayan state. 

Earlier, it was announced that people from outside Karnataka will have to carry a negative COVID-19 test report to enter Bengaluru city from April 1.

Those entering Gujarat from other states must have undergone an RT-PCR test within 72 hours before coming and carry a negative report, it said.

Also, the government had made negative test reports mandatory only for those coming from neighbouring Maharashtra which has been worst hit by the pandemic.

(With agency inputs)