Government releases travel guidelines for Indians coming from Ukraine

In case a traveller is unable to submit a pre-arrival RT-PCR test or has not completed their Covid-19 vaccination, they will be allowed to submit their samples on arrival with the advice to self-monitor their health for 14 days after arrival in India, the Ministry said in a statement

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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) recently updated its international travel advisory, which lists a number of exemptions to Indians being evacuated from Ukraine.

Indians from Ukraine will no longer have to produce a pre-boarding negative RT-PCR test and vaccination certificate as well as upload documents before departure on the Air-Suvidha Portal. In case a traveller is unable to submit a pre-arrival RT-PCR test or has not completed their Covid-19 vaccination, they will be allowed to submit their samples on arrival with the advice to self-monitor their health for 14 days after arrival in India, the Ministry said in a statement.

The embassy said that Ukraine Railways was starting special trains for evacuations and advised all students to make their way to the railway station for a journey to the Western parts

As of February 28, 2022, 1156 Indians from Ukraine arrived in India with none of them being kept under isolation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has planned to send four Union Ministers to neighbouring countries of Ukraine to coordinate evacuations of stranded Indians amid ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine, according to government sources.

The Indian embassy in Ukraine informed that the weekend curfew had been lifted in Kyiv. The embassy said that Ukraine Railways was starting special trains for evacuations and advised all students to make their way to the railway station for a journey to the Western parts.

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