All asymptomatic travelers arriving in Delhi will now have to undergo only seven days of home quarantine as per the new quarantine rules in Delhi and as against the earlier requirement of 14 days.

According to a notification by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Wednesday, all asymptomatic passengers who enter / de-board in the NCT of Delhi shall home quarantine themselves for seven days.

In this regard, the airport, railway, and transport departments will submit passenger manifests to the office of the principal secretary of revenue department on daily basis, said the order by Delhi Chief secretary and chairman of the executive committee of Delhi Disaster Management Authority(DDMA) Vijay Dev.

Earlier, asymptomatic passengers were permitted to go with advice that they shall self monitor their health for 14 days.

The order further states that the district magistrate should ensure that the passengers residing in their jurisdiction remain in home quarantine for 7 days.

The principal secretary (Revenue) will forward the passenger manifests to the district magistrates concerned to ensure that the passengers in their areas abide by the norm.

The notification came on a day when the national capital recorded yet another highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases. A total of 1,513 new coronavirus cases were reported, taking the tally to 23, 645 including 13,497 active cases. And With nine more deaths, the toll has climbed to 606.

Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand government on Wednesday extended the 14-day quarantine period to 21 days for those returning from the country’s 75 worst coronavirus-hit cities, which included Delhi, Noida, Agra, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Chennai, and Hyderabad.

According to an order issued by Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh, people coming from these cities will be quarantined at an institutional facility for a week. Thereafter, they will be home quarantined for 14 days.

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..The government on Wednesday issued a fresh standard operating procedure (SOP) for people coming to the state by any mode of transport from the list of 75 cities designated as high load Covid-19 ones which include major cities like, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Noida, Varanasi, Jaipur, Indore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Agra, Lucknow, Jaipur and Hyderabad.