By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, March 1, 2021: Tourism in Odisha will be adversely affected with the Odisha government restricting travel from Andhra Pradesh and 11 other states, under the COVID-19 guidelines.

The Odisha government on February 26 had passed an order based on resurgence of COVID-19 cases in a few States. In its order, the Odisha government had notified Andhra Pradesh along with other States such as Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, Chandigarh and Karnataka.

As per the Odisha government order, all passengers from the notified States have to be screened on arrival at airports and railway stations, on-site RT-PCR tests to be conducted for symptomatic passengers and all incoming passengers will have to follow one-week mandatory home isolation.

There are a lot of tourists from these states to Odisha and vice versa and it will hit the tourism industry badly.