Berlin:
Germany has announced short-term limitations on the passenger site visitors with India as the nation is witnessing a record rise in coronavirus infections amid the second wave.
“In order not to jeopardise our vaccination campaign, we need to significantly limit our passenger traffic with India,” German Health Minister Jens Spahn, as quoted by Sputnik.
Only German citizens will be capable to cross into Germany from India, beginning Sunday evening. According to the Russian news agency, Germany will quickly add India to its list of higher-threat nations.
Several nations about the world like Kuwait, UK, Canada, Hong Kong, and the UAE have suspended passenger flights from India.
India on Saturday recorded 3,46,786 new COVID-19 instances, the highest single-day spike considering the fact that the pandemic broke out last year.
According to the official information issued by the government, the nation recorded 2,624 new deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
So far, 1,66,10,481 COVID-19 instances have been reported in India although 1,89,544 individuals have died due to the infection.