Time to ease India’s high-risk status and tight travel restrictions: experts
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Health experts say the federal government should reconsider ongoing stricter restrictions for travel to and from India, where new COVID-19 infections have dropped to about 40,000 a day from more than 400,000 at their peak in May.
At the end of April, Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly declared India the first country to meet the threshold of a high-risk country, prompting a pause in flights and chaos for Indian-Australians.
While government-facilitated repatriation flights from India and indirect commercial flights resumed on May 15, India remains on the high-risk list, along with Papua New Guinea, and more restrictive travel arrangements apply both inbound and outbound.
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