Rs 3,500 For Rapid Test, Up To 8-Hour Wait: Delhi Airport's Omicron Ordeal
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Narrating the ordeal, a passenger said people are having to spend up to two hours in queue to get themselves tested.
Waiting up to 8 hours in a crowded space and shelling out Rs 3,500 in case you need a rapid COVID-19 test - that's the cost many are paying for flying into Delhi from abroad under the new rules aimed at stemming the spread of Covid's Omicron variant.
Narrating the ordeal, a passenger said people are having to spend up to two hours in queue to get themselves tested.
Visuals from the international flights terminal showed long queues of masked-up passengers waiting to get tested with no sign of physical distancing, with some of them describing the airport as a "hotspot".
There are two options to get tested - passengers can pay Rs 3,500 for a Rapid PCR test in which the result comes within 2 hours; the alternative is taking a regular RT-PCR test for Rs 500 and spending 6-8 hours waiting for the result.
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