The Biden administration will restrict travel from India beginning Tuesday the White House said Friday, as concerns mount over a record surge in coronavirus cases there.
“On the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the administration will restrict travel from India,” White House press secretary
Jen Psaki
said. “The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in India.”
An administration official said the ban on travel from India wouldn’t apply to U.S. citizens, permanent residents and other exempted individuals, such as humanitarian workers. But those individuals would still need to meet testing and quarantine requirements currently in effect for international travelers should they enter the U.S. The travel ban is indefinite until lifted by President Biden.
A spokesman for the Indian Embassy had no immediate comment.
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