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negative<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an addendum to the guidelines, and subsequent addendums, to all Ministries\/Departments (<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1607997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1607997<\/a>), regarding the Nationwide lockdown to fight Corona Virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The addendum lays down SOPs for transit of foreigners stranded in India and release of quarantined persons after being tested COVID-19 negative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/164.100.117.97\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/3rd%20Addendum%20dated%202.4.2020%20to%20Lockdown%20measures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Addendum Document\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ministry of Home Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">[Press Release dt. 02-04-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">[Source: PIB]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHA issues an addendum to lay down SOPs for transit of foreigners stranded in India and release of quarantined persons after being <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[40417,40012,40418,40416,40415],"class_list":["post-227845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-addendum","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19-negative","tag-stranded-in-india","tag-transit-of-foreigners"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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