Travelers arriving from China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, and Japan will no longer need to take a pre-departure COVID-19 test before entering India starting Feb. 13, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
The Indian Health Ministry said the decision was made due to a “sustained and significant decline in the trajectory of COVID-19 cases in the last four weeks” across the six Asian nations.
“As per World Health Organization’s latest situational update on COVID-19, a decline of 89% in the number of newly confirmed cases in the past 28 days has been noted globally as compared to 28 days prior to that,” it said in a statement posted by ANI….