bengaluru lambasted for not aligning with the centres travel guidelines the karnataka government on wednesday dropped its rules requiring all international passengers to mandatorily undergo rtpcr tests on arrival and to home quarantine themselves for seven daysaccording to the revised travel guidelines only those coming from countries atrisk notified by the centre will have to undergo covid19 tests at the port of entry and if their test results are negative they will stay in home quarantine for a week these passengers will be tested again on the eighth daythe countries atrisk as on tuesday were european nations including the united kingdom south africa brazil botswana china mauritius new zealand zimbabwe singapore hong kong and israelpassengers coming from other countries excluding atrisk nations will not be subjected to rtpcr tests and will instead leave the airport however 2 of the flight passengers as identified by airlines concerned will be subjected to random testing at the airport state health officials said that this is according to the union governments guidelinesthe state government had on tuesday stated that around 2500 international passengers arrived in the state every day and passengers from all countries would be subjected to tests and they would have to mandatorily undergo home quarantine for seven days while health minister k sudhakar justified the move stating such stringent measures were required in the backdrop of the omicron variant doing the rounds chief minister basavaraj bommai had favoured a ban on travelers from countries where the new variant has been foundbut the move had to be spiked after the centre reportedly rapped the maharashtra government for not aligning with its travel guidelines karnataka was also directed to ensure uniformity in rules official sources said while explaining why the state did a uturnaccording to the revised rule all international passengers have to upload a negative rtpcr report not older than 72 hours on air suvidha portal before boarding the flight they will have to undergo thermal screening and show the selfdeclaration form at the airport on arrival on landing the passengers have to bear the cost of testing children below 5 years are exempted from both pre and post arrival testing