China temporarily suspends Indians' entry into China citing 'current COVID pandemic'

As Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases steily fall in India, Chinese Embassy in India, anunced that it has temporarily suspended Indians' entry into China. Indians with valid Chinese visas or residence permits will t receive stamped Health Declaration Forms by Chinese embassy in India. However, foreigners holding Chinese diplomatic, service, courtesy, and C visas are t affected and visas issued after vember 3rd, 2020 too won't be affected. This move occurs ahe of India-China's 8th round of military talks over border tensions.

Active cases of COVID-19 less than 6 lakh for seven consecutive days: Health Ministry

China temporarily suspends Indians' entry

19 passengers on Air India’s Vande Bharat flight to Wuhan test positive for COVID-19

19 Air India passengers test COVID+ve in Wuhan

On Monday, nineteen passengers of Air India's 'Vande Bharat' flight to Wuhan were found to be COVID-19 positive by Chinese officials at Wuhan Airport in China. Air India while issuing an official statement said that all passengers who h boarded flight h gone through mandatory COVID testing and h only been allowed to board after y showed ir COVID negative certificates. As per Chinese authorities, all 19 passengers have been immediately transferred to a local hospital, and would only be allowed to leave once y test negative for virus. India has previously flown five flights to Shanghai, Guangzhou and Ningbo.

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India's COVID cases fall

number of active cases of COVID-19 has been less than 6 lakh for seven consecutive days with 27 states and UTs having less than 20,000 active cases, Health Ministry said on Thursday. declining trend of active cases is complemented by unbroken increase, day on day number of recovered cases, ministry said. total coronavirus cases mounted to 83,64,086 and death toll climbed to 1,24,315 with vel coronavirus virus claiming 704 lives in a span of 24 hours in country.

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India h first banned all travel to Wuhan - where virus was first discovered in early January.  India evacuated around 650 of its citizens from China, along with seven Maldivians in February, before nationwide 3-week lockdown was put in place. While China claims to have new COVID cases, a second wave of cases has hit Europe - including UK, Germany and US - witnessing a steep increase in cases.