Maldives has banned tourists from South Asia, cutting off an escape route for wealthy Indians fleeing their own country's
Covid-19crisis. The atoll nation's Ministry of Tourism and immigration authority
announced the temporary ban on Tuesday.
The ban which applies to all visa holders from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as people who have transited those countries in the past 14 days.
The ban, effective Thursday, will be in place until further notice as Maldives tries to control a surge in coronavirus cases, which jumped from around 100 new cases in mid-April to 1,572 on Wednesday.
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