Govt. decides to keep people coming from South Africa in one-week hotel quarantine

November 28, Kathmandu: The Nepal government has decided to keep the people arriving from the South African region into a compulsory quarantine considering the risk of the new variant of Covid-19 called Omicron.

It is a highly contagious variant of Covid-19 recently detected in South Africa.

Health Ministry spokesperson Krishna Prasad Poudel said a week compulsory quarantine would be imposed on the travellers coming from or making the South African region a transit.

Spokesperson Poudel further said the monitoring and testing would be intensified at the airport.

Nepal government has made a provision of one-week hotel quarantine to unvaccinated travellers.

However, Hotel quarantine has not been made mandatory for fully vaccinated people. Various nations have already announced travel restrictions to and from the South African region as the WHO declared the Omicron virus as a variant of concern.