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India Stops Most Border Crossings to Contain Virus Outbreak

Most visas to India to be suspended from March 13 to April 15
Travelers from countries including Italy to be quarantined

WATCH: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus discusses the updated characterization of the global coronavirus outbreak.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Bibhudatta Pradhan

March 11, 2020 at 5:54 PM UTC

Updated on

March 12, 2020 at 5:01 AM UTC

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India suspended most visas in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus as the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic.

All existing visas -- except permissions given for diplomatic, official, United Nations, other international organizations, employment and project visas -- will be suspended until April 15, according to a government statement Wednesday.