India is the most affected country by second wave of Covid-19, on Friday the White House said, The United States will ban travel from India from 4th May, due to uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 in the country.
The travel ban won’t apply to U.S. citizens or permanent residents and their spouses. Other individuals who might not include in travel ban, humanitarian workers, certain journalists and academics, and students commencing studies in the fall, according to a determination by the State Department.
With India, U.S has put similar bans on Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and 26 countries in Europe that allow travel across open borders.
The policy means most non-U.S. citizens who have been in one of those countries – and now India – within the last 14 days are not eligible to travel to the United States.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki in a statement said, “On the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the administration will restrict travel from India”.
She stated “extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in India”.
The new restrictions are on the advice of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are imposed “in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 case loads and multiple variants circulating in India,” the official said.
