India opens quarantine-free travel for tourists including the Philippines and 99 other Countries

After shutting its borders to international visitors for 20 months due to the pandemic, India will now allow fully vaccinated foreign travelers from a list of nearly 100 countries to enter without the need to quarantine.

In guidelines updated last week, India said travelers arriving from these 99 countries will be allowed to skip a post-arrival Covid test but must monitor their health for the next 14 days — even if the country they are coming from is deemed “at-risk.”

To be clear, those arriving from countries that are not considered at risk can also skip quarantine, but need to self-monitor for 14 days.

As of Nov. 13, there were 99 countries on that list including the United States, U.K., Singapore, Australia, Germany, France, and Brazil.

The countries on the list fall into two categories:
1. Those with reciprocal agreements with the Indian government to recognize each other’s vaccine certificates for either locally approved vaccines or those recognized by the World Health Organization;
2. and countries which do not have such agreements but that allow fully vaccinated Indian citizens to travel.

Notable countries missing from that list of 99 countries include China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia.

India’s Covid situation

Last month, India reached a notable vaccine milestone — it administered more than 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses since starting its ambitious vaccination program in January.

Source: https://cnb.cx/3HowhL9