MILAN (Reuters) – Italy has joined other nations around the world by imposing constraints on travel from India to avert the distribute of a COVID-19 variant as the Asian nation struggles with a surge in bacterial infections.
Italy’s Overall health Minister Roberto Speranza reported on Twitter he had signed an purchase barring international travellers who have been in India in the past 14 days from moving into the region.
India, which is facing a wellbeing crisis, is battling a “double mutant” pressure of COVID-19. On Sunday, the region posted the world’s optimum single-day increase in scenarios for a fourth day.
Italian citizens will be permitted to return from India with a damaging check final result at their departure and one particular at their arrival and then have to go into quarantine, the minister reported.
All those now in Italy and who travelled from India in the previous 14 times were being asked for to undergo a swab.
“Our experts are at perform to examine the new Indian variant,” Speranza reported.
Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari Editing by Edmund Blair
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