India is set to reopen its borders to overseas travellers as it relaxes Covid-related restrictions amid a drop in daily infections.
Starting Friday, the country will grant tourist visas to travellers arriving on chartered flights.
The facility will be extended to those arriving on commercial flights from 15 November.
Foreign tourists who land in India on Friday will be the first to come into the country in 19 months.
No tourist visas have been issued since March 2020 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government shut the country’s borders to rein in the coronavirus pandemic. In the past few months though, some visas for diplomats and foreign business officials have been reinstated.
courtesy BBC
