People wearing protective masks stand close to a cutout with precautionary messages against the coronavirus on a street in New Delhi, India. (Photographer T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
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Aug 08, 2020
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Overseas Citizen of India card holders from the U.S., U.K., Germany and France, with whom India has signed air bubble arrangements, will be allowed to visit the country, the Home Ministry announced on Friday.
Other foreigners from these countries have also been allowed to avail Indian visa facility for business, medical and employment purposes.
According to a home ministry notification, Indian citizens have also been allowed to travel to these countries on any type of visa.
India's Covid-19 management is marked by "two significant achievements" of continuously rising recovery rate among Covid-19 patients and a case fatality rate that has remained much below the global average, according to the health ministry.
While the recovery rate among coronavirus patients has risen to a record high of 67.98%, the fatality rate has gone down to 2.05%, it said on Friday.
"These two in tandem have enabled a higher and rising difference of more than 7.7 lakh between the number of recovered patients and active cases in India," the ministry said. With 49,769 patients recuperating from the disease in 24 hours, the number of recoveries have jumped to 13,78,105 on Friday.
The recovery rate has increased from 51.08% on June 15 to 67.98% on August 7, while active cases which comprised 46.06% of the total Covid-19 caseload now account for 29.96% , it said.
The total number of #COVID19 samples tested up to 6th August is 2,27,24,134 including 5,74,783 samples tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) pic.twitter.com/uyfL3IjWaM
The Philippines now has the worst outbreak in Southeast Asia, overtaking Indonesia, with cases surging to almost 120,000. Japan is facing criticism for conflicting signals from national and local officials on travel while Australia is committing more funds to its JobKeeper program to support employment amid the pandemic.
Over 19 million cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed globally with more than 713,000 dead.
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