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India to allow tourists for first time in 18 months

New Delhi (CNN) — India is
to begin granting tourist visas

for foreign visitors after an
18-month pause due to the
Covid-19 pandemic, the country's
government announced
Thursday.

Tourists arriving by chartered
flight will be able to do so from

October 15, according to a press
release from India's Ministry
of Home Affairs. Other arrivals
would be permitted from
November 15, it said.

The move follows a tentative
reopening in recent months to
travelers on business, diplomat Top image credit: T. Nayaran/Bloomberg/Getty Images

or student visas.
In 2018, foreign exchange earnings from tourism amounted to $28.6
"All due protocols and norms billion.
relating to Covid-19 as notified
by the Ministry of Health and Earlier this year, India was the global center of the Covid-19 pandemic

Family Welfare from time to with thousands of deaths daily during the April-May peak, with
time, shall be adhered to by many blamed on the Delta variant that was first identified here.
the foreign tourists, carriers

bringing them into India and all To date the country has had 449,856 Covid deaths and 33,894,312
other stakeholders at landing cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data. So far, 18.63% of
stations," read the release the population has been fully vaccinated.

India welcomed 10.6 million The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently has a

foreign tourist arrivals in 2019, "level 2: moderate risk" advisory for US citizens considering travel
the year before the pandemic, to India. It says travelers should be fully vaccinated before visiting.
according to official figures. Unvaccinated travelers should avoid nonessential travel.

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