American citizens are urged to avoid traveling to India or staying there amid a catastrophic surge in Covid-19 cases worsened by the apparition of a new double-mutant variant of the deadly virus.
The US Embassy in India released a level-4 advisory Wednesday, asking Americans to leave the country through daily direct flights to the US or to Paris and Frankfurt where they would be brought back home.
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“Access to medical care is severely limited due to Covid-19 cases,” The US State Department said on Twitter. “US citizens wishing to depart should use commercial options now.”
India is struggling to provide medical care to scores of patients hit with a new fatal Covid variant described as “far more infectious and probably far more deadly.”
