As India notices the continuation of the lowering trend of the deadly Covid-19 virus in recent times, the nation hopes that soon more countries would lift travel restrictions on Indians.
In April when the second wave of COVID virus hit India and the country’s daily cases rise up to 4 lakhs, many countries had put India on the red list and some even imposed a complete ban on the entry of Indians.
The main reason behind these restrictions was spread of COVID variant B.1.617, which first emerged in India.
Now that steep COVID-19 curve has begun to bend downwards, India hopes that countries would open restrictions.
Talking to reporters in virtual weekly briefing MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that some countries have started the process of easing restrictions.
“When COVID-19 second wave began, some countries imposed temporary travel restrictions on India. We expect that these restrictions should be lifted when the situation normalizes. We saw some countries started this process of easing restrictions, other countries should do the same we expect,” he said.
UAE, Canada, Australia, UK , Oman, Nepal, Philippines, Maldives, Kuwait, Italy, France, Germany and New Zealand are among the countries which imposed restrictions on Indians.
However, some countries had eased restrictions on travel from India. These include. Netherland, Russia, South Africa, Egypt, and Turkey.
