Indian media: Indian interior ministry officials said that India will soon open travel to foreign to

Original title: Indian media: Indian interior ministry officials said that India will soon open travel to foreign tourists
(Observer News) according to the press trust of India (PTI) on the 19th, an official of the Indian Ministry of the interior said that with the decline of new confirmed cases in India in a single day, India may soon open its door to foreign tourists.

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On September 17, 2021 local time, in Mumbai, India, Indian women lined up for the new crown vaccine during a special mass vaccination campaign for women. Figure self surging image
According to the report, the official said that the official notice allowing foreign tourists to enter India is expected to be issued within 10 days. At that time, the Indian authorities will issue visas for the top 500000 foreign tourists free of charge. The Indian authorities expect to revive the domestic tourism, hotel and aviation industries through relevant measures, which have been seriously hit by the national blockade in India since March last year.
According to the report, the deadline for India's free visa measure for foreign tourists is March 31, 2022, and 500000 Indian tourist visas are first come, first served. It is said that the Indian authorities will spend about 1 billion rupees (about 88 million yuan).
The number of new cases and deaths in India has remained relatively stable in August. Soumya Swaminathan, a WHO chief scientist, has said that COVID-19 India may be entering some endemic stage. At this time, the spread of virus is at a low level, but it will exist for a long time.
According to the latest data released by the Indian Ministry of health on September 20, in the past 24 hours, there have been 30256 new confirmed cases in India, and the cumulative confirmed cases have risen to 33478419; There were 295 new deaths, with a total of 445133 deaths. According to the statistics of Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of September 20, 2021 Beijing time, the number of fully vaccinated people in India exceeded 810031957.