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Britain’s Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added on Friday to Britain’s “red-list” of locations from which most travel is banned due to a high number of COVID-19 cases, the airport said on Wednesday.
The move by Britain comes after it detected more than 100 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday.
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US has issued an advisory, warning Americans to avoid travelling to India amid a spike in COVID-19 cases
The CDC also issued travel recommendations for fully vaccinated travellers
Washington: The United States has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to India amid a massive surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an advisory for the
American citizens, recommending them to avoid travelling to India.
Amid a surge in COVID cases (in India), travellers should avoid all travel to India. Even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting & spreading variants and should avoid all travel to India. If you must travel to India, get fully vaccinated before travel: CDC, USA pic.twitter.com/VrLK4hpZRA