Testing mandatory to enter Haryana, permission only if found coronavirus negative

New Delhi : Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij has announced that the people who wish to come to Haryana, coronavirus test with negative result is mandatory. The state will ask the visitor to show recent negative coronavirus test report before allowing the person to enter the state.

For those who will not be having the test reports, there will be a rapid test kit available on the border for checking. While guidelines for the procedure are being framed, teams for rapid testing and thermal screening are already deployed at all state borders.

A special guideline is also being formed for the people who are living in Haryana but have to travel to Delhi for work.

Vij said: “It will be mandatory for anybody entering Haryana to first go through a coronavirus test. A person will only be allowed to enter Haryana, if he/she tests negative for the coronavirus.”

Recently, Haryana has sealed its borders with Delhi after learning a quick rise in the number of coronavirus cases in four districts – Faridabad, Gurgaon, Sonipat and Jhajjhar.

“In Haryana, more than 70 per cent of the Covid-19 cases are from four districts adjoining Delhi. It would be compulsory for any person entering Haryana from Delhi to have a negative report,” Vij said.

He added, “Even for e-passes, the applicants will have to produce their negative report of coronavirus test.”

Anil Vij further elaborated, “The Delhi High Court has ordered that only those people who test positive for coronavirus should be quarantined. But, how will we get to know that who is positive and who is negative. For that, people need to get their tests done. Then only we can allow a person to enter Haryana. If a person is positive, then why shall we take him in.”