12 Mar 2020

Growing number of countries impose travel restrictions and quarantine measures

India has announced a suspension of all entry visas for a month, as well as restricting return travel for its citizens who are currently abroad.

India has announced a suspension of all entry visas for a month, as well as restricting return travel for its citizens who are currently abroad. The Philippine capital Manila has quarantine measures in place, with travel in and out of the capital suspended. In the last 24 hours, Iran has reported over 1,000 new cases and its death toll has risen to 429 – with every province affected. Latin America’s biggest airline is cutting thirty per cent of its international flights because of falling demand. Denmark has closed all its schools and universities along with Norway, Greece, Lithuania and Slovakia