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India Suspends All Tourist Visas Till April 15 Over Coronavirus: 10 Facts

New Delhi: The government has suspended all visas to India as the cases of coronavirus in the country sharply spiked and the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic. Altogether, 67 people in India are infected, a chunk of them are a group of tourists from Italy. The Union health ministry said all existing visas — except diplomatic, official, UN/International organisations, employment and project visas — will be suspended till April 15. “This will come into effect from 1200 GMT on 13th March 2020 at the port of departure,” read a communique issued late Wednesday night after a meeting of a Group of Ministers headed by health minister Dr Harshvardhan. Visa facilities had been partially suspended earlier from the COVID-19 nations, countries where the virus is on a rampage.

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Coronavirus in 101 countries / Italy has the highest number of 233 deaths in a day , the entire country lockdown; 100 year old defeated Corona in China

Beijing / Rome. Coronavirus spread from Wuhan city of China has spread to 101 countries till Monday. The highest number of deaths in the world was 233 on Sunday in Italy. It has lost 366 lives here due to corona infection. In 24 hours, 1200 new infections were confirmed. The Italian government has locked down 1.5 million people in the country. At the same time, it is gradually being controlled in China. As of Sunday, 3661 deaths were recorded worldwide. There were 1752 new cases and 89 deaths in one day.

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