Friday, March 13, 2020

New travel arrangements not for Nepalis: India


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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