Kathmandu, Mar 12
India has said that the existing travel arrangements for Nepali nationals
would remain unaffected despite its visa restrictions issued by the Bureau of
Immigration to foreign nationals due to COVID-19.
India had issued the visa restrictions on Wednesday.
“The current
measures are solely for the purposes of managing public health and safety.
These measures do not currently have any impact on normal travel of Nepali
nationals to India, either by air or by existing land routes,” said the Indian
Embassy in Kathmandu in its statement on Thursday.
However,
there will be intensified health inspections at all entry points and any
traveller, Indian, Nepali or from the third countries showing COVID-19 symptoms
or with recent travel history to one of seven
COVID-19 outbreak countries may possibly be subject to quarantine if so
required, said the embassy.
According
to it, keeping in view the ramifications of current global spread of COVID-19
on public health and safety, certain health safety measures are being
implemented for foreign and Indian nationals entering into and exiting from
India.
The
embassy said that the primary intention was to ensure the health and safety of
both Indian as well as foreign nationals with minimum inconvenience to travel
and mobility.
These
measures would be continuously reviewed depending on the evolving situation, it
said.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 13 February 2020.
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