Goa: COVID Negative Certificate Required Even For Fully Vaccinated Tourists

Panaji: If you are planning a trip to Goa, then this news may come as a setback for you.

On Monday, the Goa government announced that they will not allow entry to even fully-vaccinated tourists travelling without a COVID-negative certificate. This is being done in a bid to control the spread of Covid infections in the state, particularly the new Delta Plus variant of the virus, which has been detected in Maharashtra.

However, the High court of Bombay at Goa said no COVID-negative certificate would be required for fully vaccinated people entering Goa for work and business purposes or for Goan citizens returning home.

As per media reports, the division bench stated in its order, “The state, however, will have to evolve a suitable mechanism to ensure that the benefit of the exemptions is extended to only the exempted categories and not to others.”