International tourists who have recovered from COVID-19 will not have to take COVID-19 PCR test before entering Laos, according to Laos’ Ministry of Health.
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Mumbai civic body has made rapid RT-PCR test mandatory for the passengers coming from at-risk and high-risk countries and the UAE at the international airport, a senior civic official said on Wednesday.
Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday.