The fact that India set the record for the highest number of new Covid-19 cases per day in the world made many countries immediately take measures to prevent infection from this country …
Health experts say India was caught off guard when the pandemic appeared to be under control this winter – Photo: Reuters On April 22, India recorded 314,835 new Covid-19 infections, the highest number in a day in the world since the outbreak of the pandemic. Days after this information, Canada and Singapore simultaneously decided to stop flights and people entering from the South Asian country. According to Reuters, the Singapore Ministry of Health on April 22 said it would stop accepting admissions – with both short and long-term visas – with a history of moving to India in recent times. Singapore is investigating Covid-19 infections and reinfection cases at a migrant workers’ dormitory and is quarantining more than 1,100 people at the facility. To date, 17 workers here have re-positive for the virus. The Singapore government said the measures to restrict travel with India will help it prevent the risk of infection in migrant labor hostels because there are many people from India. 
Indian workers at Singapore Changi Airport prepare to board a plane home on June 12, 2002 – Photo: Reuters Also on April 22, Canada announced a ban on direct flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days from 23:30 on the same day to prevent the spread of new Covid-19 variants. Several Canadian provinces have reported cases of new Covid-19 variant from India. Health Canada Minister Patty Hajdu said India currently accounts for 20% of recent air traffic to Canada, but more than 50% of positive tests are detected upon entry. This creates a great risk of infection. Earlier this week, the UK also put India on the “red list”, effective April 23, which banned all flights from the South Asian country, after it recorded 103 cases of infection with a new variant. first discovered in India. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) then advised Americans to “avoid all travel to India”. On Sunday, Hong Kong (China) announced a 14-day ban on passenger flights from India starting April 20. New Zealand also suspended entry for tourists from India earlier this month out of concern about new Covid-19 variants in the billion-pop country. Since the beginning of the pandemic up to now, the total number of Covid infections in India is 15.93 million. The number of deaths recorded on April 22 was 2,104, bringing the total number of deaths from the beginning of the epidemic to 184,657, according to official statistics. India has been caught off guard as the pandemic seems to be under control this winter, health experts say. At that time, the number of new infections a day was only about 10,000 cases and authorities began to relax restrictions, allowing large crowds. According to experts, some new strains of corona virus, especially the double mutation originating from India, are the main cause of the number of new infections in the country soaring.
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