India to relax travel curbs despite virus crisis
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday announced it will start easing international travel restrictions, despite the country’s daily coronavirus case count still being well over 50,000. As part of a “graded relaxation” plan, the government said borders will be opened to “more categories of foreign nationals and Indian nationals who wish to enter or leave India.” The decision came on a day when 55,839 more infections and 702 deaths took India’s overall tally past 7.7 million, including 116,616 fatalities. The world’s second worst-hit country, however, has seen a steady decline in daily cases over recent days, and a government panel declared a few days earlier that India likely crossed its transmission peak last month. “It has been decided to permit all OCI [Overseas Citizenship of India) and PIO [Persons of Indian Origin) cardholders and all other foreign nationals intending to visit India for any purpose, except on a Tourist Visa, to enter by air or water routes through authorised airports...
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