As per the report publishes in ANI, Aviation regulator DGCA has said that foreigners, who visited China on or after January 15, won’t be allowed to enter India.
“Foreigners who have been to China on or after January 15, 2020, aren’t allowed to enter India from any air, land or seaport including India-Nepal, Indo-Bhutan, Indo-Bangladesh or Indo-Myanmar land borders,” the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said in a circular.
The decision comes when the toll because of the outbreak of novel coronavirus rose to 813 in China on Sunday.
The circular, issued on Saturday, also reiterated that all visas, as well as e-visas issued to Chinese nationals before February 5, are suspended with immediate effect.
“No Chinese national, as well as other foreigners presently in China, are allowed to travel to India on existing Regular (sticker) visa or e-visa, which they hold (issued prior to Feb 05, 2020). just in case of compelling reasons to visit India, such persons may get in touch with Embassy in Beijing or Consulates in Shanghai and Guangzhou for new visas,” the circular said.
However, the visa restrictions aren’t applicable to the aircrew, who may either be Chinese nationals or other foreign nationalities coming from China.
Amid a rising pneumonia scare caused because of the virus outbreak, Indigo and Air India have temporarily suspended flight operations in and around China.
The deaths due to 2019-nCoV — a deadly virus that traces its origin in the local seafood market of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in central China — has surpassed the toll from the SARS epidemic of 2002-3.
Viral pneumonia caused by the highly contagious and life-threatening virus started in the middle of December and has spread to almost 23 countries across the world including Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, India, and the united states.
Many countries have also restricted their citizens from traveling to China and also found out health camps at airports to screen passengers coming back from the East Asian country in the wake of the pneumonia outbreak.
(Source: ANI)
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