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Biden restricts travel from India to US due to Covid outbreak
"On the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the administration will restrict travel from India," Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
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This combination of pictures created on April 26, 2021 shows a handout photograph taken on December 15, 2020 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the foundation stone ceremony of various development projects in Kutch.
and a file photo taken on April 2, 2021, of US President Joe Biden(R) speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.US President Joe Biden promised emergency assistance to Covid-ravaged India in a telephone call on April 26, 2021 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the two countries said. (AFP/Mandel Ngan/Indian Press Information Bureau)
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he United States will restrict travel from India starting next week, due to rampant spread of Covid-19 in the country, the White House said Friday.
"On the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the administration will restrict travel from India," Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
She cited "extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in the India" and said the policy
On Saturday, India recorded over 400,000 new Covid cases in 24 hours for the first time, the first country to do so in the pandemic, official data showed.
According to the health ministry, 401,993 new infections were registered taking the total caseload to 19.1 million. There were 3,523 deaths, bringing the toll to 211,853.
Many experts suspect that because of insufficient testing and inaccurate recording of cause of death, the real numbers are much higher.
Indian authorities lowered their guard in the early part of the year after infections fell below 10,000 per day, lifting restrictions on most activity.
Mass religious gatherings such as the Kumbh Mela, attracting millions of Hindu pilgrims, and political rallies were allowed to continue even when cases numbers began rising sharply in late March.
In April alone, India recorded around seven million new infections. On a per-capita basis however India's caseload remains low compared to many other countries.
