WASHINGTON: The US government has asked its citizens to leave India as soon as possible because of the country’s escalating COVID-19 crisis.
The State Department advised its citizens not to travel to India or to leave as soon as it is safe to do so.
Australia earlier this week banned all flights from India to relieve pressure on the nation’s system of mainly quarantining returned residents from overseas in inner-city hotels, after a jump in infections.
The UK has barred any visitor who has been in India in the previous 10 days from entering.
British and Irish nationals arriving in England from India must quarantine in a hotel.
