Let us know if they check on your home quarantine. It looks like the same rules are applied differently based on the personnel at the airport. Usual Indian chaos.

7-Day quarantine even if tested negative upon arrival?

This document indicates that 2% of all arriving passengers on a flight will be tested and "All travellers (including those 2% who were selected for random testing on arrival and were found negative) will undergo home quarantine for 7 days and shall undertake RT-PCR test on the 8th day of arrival in India*.

So even if you test negative you still have to spend 7 days sitting around and twiddling your thumb? And what if you have no "home" in India but were planning to stay at a hotel?

Day 3 now. No one has contacted me yet & I don't think anyone will.

This is similar to the rule they had initially when they resumed international flights in 2020. You had to quarantine at home (or in your hotel) on arrival for a set number of days. No one followed up to see if this was actually being done.

Thats good , Do let us know about future days too. Thanks for letting me know. I am due to fly to hyderabad from heathrow on 25th and meant to get married on 5th in WB. Hopefully everything goes smoothly

Congratulations on the upcoming wedding:tu:

Any calls or visits yet from the health officials ?

Nothing so far.

sharing an experience - friend of mine arrived in Delhi on Jan 12. Address provided in Air Suvidha form was local Delhi address. Received a call on Jan 14 from Delhi Health Dept asking if he has any symptoms and reminder that they have to quarantine at home for 7 days.

Good to know that they are following up with some people. I'm on day 6 now & have not received any call. I'm supposed to upload a Covid test report on day 8. Lets see if I get a call by then.

We are planning a trip to India in early Feb. If our flight into Delhi arrives in the evening, will the authorities allow for us to stay 1 night in Delhi before taking a train next day to our final quarantine destination?

Welcome to FlyerTalk!

That should be fine and others on this forum have reported doing it without any issues. Where are you arriving from?

Thank you! We will be flying from Chicago

Once you are out of the airport, nobody cares how and when you reach your final quarantine address. All you will experience is likely getting a call from the state health department in a couple of days, reminding you about the quarantine.

Thank you! One more question - generally all the labs in Ludhiana (where we will be quarantining) mention it can take 24-48 hours to receive results from a RT-PCR test. Does this mean we need to quarantine another 1-2 days after day 8 while we wait for test results?