Covid-19: India announces new guidelines for foreign travellers

India on Monday announced new travel guidelines for travellers from some countries including UK. Countries in Europe including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Singapore are the nations from where travellers would need to follow additional measures on arrival in India, including post-arrival testing, the government said.

India’s Covid tally rose to 3,44,47,536 with 10,229 more people testing positive for coronavirus, while the active cases have declined to 1,34,096, the lowest in 523 days, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data today.

The death count reached 4,63,655 after 125 new fatalities were reported, the data updated at 8 am showed. The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 38 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 141 consecutive days now.

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The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.26 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the Health Ministry said.