The government has been actively considering doing away with a provision which needs international passengers to upload their Covid-19 vaccine certificate or RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal before flying to India. However, the present mandate of filling up a self-declaration form online on the portal would still be continued.

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Currently, the passengers have to upload the documents on the Air Suvidha portal
The government actively doing away with the requirements to upload documents
Still global passengers had to fill up a self-declaration form on the online portal 

Complaints from the passengers have been coming regarding the portal being periodically down, facing problems while accessing forms and uploading of certificates. Well, adding the removal of the provision would come as a relief for the passengers.

As per a source “The Civil Aviation Ministry recently sought inputs from the Union Health Ministry for removal of the provision which would need international passengers to upload the COVID-19 vaccine certificate or the RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal which has cited inconvenience faced by travellers.” The source has added “The health ministry has given its approval for this.”

The aviation ministry has been receiving feedback from travellers regarding the hassles they would face during uploading the certificates prior to their travel.

With international travel getting back to the pre-pandemic level, many countries have been taking steps to relax needs and restrictions for ease of travel.

As per the data updated on Tuesday by the Union Health Ministry, India had logged 12,751 new coronavirus infections which have been taking the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,41,74,650, whereas the active cases have been declined to 1,31,807. Well, on the other hand the death toll have been climbed to 5,26,772 with 42 fatalities which would include 10 reconciled by Kerala.

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