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US Health Body Warns Citizens, ‘Avoid All Travel To India, Even Fully Vaccinated People At Risk’

Mumbai: Citing an alarming spike in coronavirus cases in India. A top medical body of the United States has advised American citizens to avoid all travel to India.

Even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting and spreading variants, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an advisory for American citizens.

“Amid a surge in COVID cases (in India), travellers should avoid all travel to India. Even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting & spreading variants and should avoid all travel to India. If you must travel to India, get fully vaccinated before travel,” the health body said.

Earlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that India was being added to Britain’s ‘red list’ of countries in view of the surging case.

However, Britain on Monday imposed travel restrictions on India, banning all arrivals from India except for the UK or Irish nationals.

Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, India recorded 2,59,170 new COVID19 cases taking the total tally to 1,53,21,089 with more than 20 lakh active cases, According to the Union Health Ministry data. The total death in the country has passed a mark of 1.8 lakh with 1761 recorded new deaths every day.

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