Home Dept issues SOP for air passengers
Incoming folks to head straight back for home quarantine
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 24 2020: With domestic flight service scheduled to resume from tomorrow, the Home Department has issued standard operating procedure (SOP) for passengers returning to the State by air.

All passengers should download and install AAROGYA SETU application in their mobile before travel and they would be medically screened at their port of departure before boarding.

All passengers are also required to install a quarantine app developed by NIC/Government of Manipur by downloading it from quarmonmanipur.nic.in before boarding aircraft and activate it immediately on reaching home.

All passengers on de-boarding at Imphal airport should fill up a prescribed form supplied by Health Department before proceeding to arrival hall in staggered manner as regulated by the authorities.

The passengers would be screened by medical teams using full body thermal scanner at the arrival hall.

Thereafter the filled-in forms should be submitted to the medical teams.

All asymptomatic passengers would be stamped for home quarantine on their hand with indelible ink and allowed to baggage collection area.

Any symptomatic passenger or suspected passenger would be separated immediately and sent to isolation ward/COVID treatment ward by medical team as per the protocol.

After collection of luggage, the passengers shall proceed in batches to parking area for pick up either by their own vehicles or taxi, according to the SOP issued by Special Secretary (Home) H Gyan Prakash.

It said that no visitors would be allowed in the arrival area and they should remain seated in the vehicles in which they came.

Loitering in and around parking area is not allowed and the boarding pass would be treated as curfew pass.

All taxi drivers registered with Transport Department are exempted from the lockdown for pick up and dropping passengers at airport.

Private vehicles who proceed to pick up passengers should carry either soft copy or hard copy of boarding pass or passenger's ticket which shall be treated as curfew pass.

Persons including taxi drivers coming to pick up passengers should park their vehicles in designated area and leave immediately after picking up passengers.

Persons coming to drop passengers should leave the airport immediately after dropping passengers and no parking would be allowed, said the SOP.

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