Saurabh.Sinha@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:26.04.2021
Germany, Italy, Maldives and Bangladesh have restricted entry of travellers from India with immediate effect due to the Covid situation here.
Now, only German nationals and holders of a German resident permit travelling from India are allowed to enter there. Lufthansa and Air India, however, say they are not suspending flights between India and Germany.
Italy has barred foreign travellers who have been in India in the past 14 days from entering the country. Italian residents in India will be allowed to return with a negative test result before departure and on arrival, when they will have to go into quarantine.
On Sunday, Maldives tourism minister tweeted: “With effect from April 27, (Maldives’ health authorities) suspends tourists travelling from India to Maldives from staying at tourist facilities in inhabited islands.”
The highly infectious coronavirus mutant in India has led to several countries in past few days barring or restricting travellers from the country. These include UK, UAE, Canada, Kuwait, Oman, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Indonesia.
On Saturday, German Health Minister Jens Spahn tweeted (this is English translation): “The newly discovered virus mutation in India worries us very much. In order not to jeopardise our vaccination campaign, travel to India must be significantly restricted. Therefore, the federal government will shortly declare India a virus variant area. From Sunday night, only Germans from India are allowed to enter; they must also be tested before departure and immediately after entry sent into a 14-day quarantine.”
Under the new rules for travel from India to Germany, “transit via Germany to any Schengen destination is only permitted for German nationals and holders of a German resident permit. Transit to any non-Schengen destination is permitted for all nationalities. Holders of German short- and long-term visas are not allowed to enter Germany. Students on new German student visa and not holding a resident permit of Germany are not allowed to enter Germany… Members of aforeign diplomatic mission or consular office and their accompanying close family members whose appointment and arrival into Germany has been notified to the German Federal Foreign Office are allowed to enter Germany”.
TIGHT MEASURES: Passengers check their mobile phones next to a sign indicating the way to a sanitary control point for passengers arriving from countries listed as Covid-19 red zones, in Roissy, near Paris, on Sunday. Passengers arriving in France from India must take a Covid antigen test and follow a 10-day home quarantine
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