SURAT : As migrant labourers have started returning to Surat in Gujarat, the city civic body has asked their employers to follow the state labour department's guidelines for their mandatory COVID-19 testing and quarantine or else face action.As per the guidelines, any migrant labourer showing coronavirus symptoms will have to be mandatorily quarantined for seven days before joining work, the Surat Municipal Corporation said on Monday.Also, all migrant labourers returning to Surat will have to undergo antibody tests for COVID-19.
If they are not found to have antibodies, they will have to undergo an antigen test, the civic body said.If the antigen test is negative even if the labourer shows symptoms of COVID-19, then RT-PCR test will be.