Omicron

The UK government on March 18 lifted the Covid-19 international travel restrictions. All remaining Covid-19 pandemic related international travel restrictions, including filling in Passenger Locator Forms before arrival and compulsory pre-departure tests for unvaccinated travellers, have been scrapped from Friday, the UK ...

Germany has ended its strict rules for travelers entering from a series of countries with particularly high rates of Omicron infections. The nine countries, including Britain and South Africa - as well as several other southern African states - had been placed ...

German air carrier Lufthansa plans to cut 33,000 flights from its winter schedule, about 10% of its total flight plan. CEO Carsten Spohr told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that there had been a sharp downturn in bookings, particularly in the mid-January ...

Germany is set to classify the United Kingdom as an area of variant of concern due to the rapid spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, Germany's Robert Koch Institute announced on Saturday, December 18. The decision is set to go into effect ...

Amid Omicron threat, Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday extended the suspension on scheduled international flights till 31 January 2022. However, international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the competent authority on case to case basis, ...

The US has made it mandatory for all incoming passengers, including those from India, to carry a negative COVID-19 test report or a proof of recovery from the contagion amidst rising number of cases of the new Omicron variant. The ...

As concerns over the new Covid-19 variant - Omicron, continue to rise, the centre on Sunday shared new guidelines for international travellers visiting India. However, the new guidelines will come into force starting from 1 December. The travellers arriving in India ...

On Thursday, the central government directed all the states and Union Territories (Uts) to do a mandatory screening and testing of travellers from the three respective countries; South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana. A new Covid-19 variant with new mutations is ...