Georgia tightens entry rules for Indian visitors due to pandemic

From April 15, despite Covid-19 vaccine passports, all Indian visitors entering Georgia will be required to present PCR test results from the proceeding 72 hours.

After entering Georgia, individuals coming from India (regardless of their citizenship) will have to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine, which should be financed by their own budget.

According to the amendments, which have already entered into force, any person coming from India is obliged to present  a document confirming the full course of any type of Covid vaccine, while foreign students coming from India, regardless of their citizenship, full course of vaccination and negative PCR test, will have to undergo 14-day mandatory quarantine.

Quarantine expenses of  six days for the foreign students who entered from India to Georgia on April 14 will be covered only once by the Georgian government , while the rest 8 day-quarantine should be financed by the students themselves (regardless of their citizenship).

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The epidemic situation in India has been deteriorating recently. A total of 184,372 individuals have been tested positive for Covid-19 in the country in the last 24 hours, which is a record high daily rate of Covid-19 infection worldwide.

In the last 24 hours, 1,027 Covid patients have died in India.

There have been 13.9 million cases of Covid-19 in India since the Covid-19 outbreak began worldwide.