Covid-19: MHA suspends travel, registration for Kartarpur
NEW DELHI: In order to contain the spread of coronavirus, the Ministry of home affairs has temporarily suspended the travel and registration for Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan from Monday.
"In wake of the #COVID19india outbreak, as a precautionary measure to contain and control the spread of the disease, the travel and registration for #SriKartarpurSahib is temporarily suspended from 12 am March 16, 2020, till further orders," tweeted spokesperson Ministry of home affairs.
All types of passenger movements through all immigration Land Check Posts located at India's borders with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar suspended w.e.f. 0000hrs, Mar15, 2020 & at India-Pakistan border w.e.f. 0000hrs, Mar16, 2020, except at the posts below.#COVID19india pic.twitter.com/YXqNzPKqmW
— Spokesperson, Ministry of Home Affairs (@PIBHomeAffairs) March 15, 2020
Breaking: India suspends travel & registration for #SriKartarpurSahib in Pakistan from 0000hrs, March 16, till further orders. Moves comes as precautionary measure to contain the spread of #Coronavirus@NewsMobileIndia@isaurabhshukla https://t.co/GrPZkhbMsH
— Raghvendra Rao (@raghvendra_rao) March 15, 2020
The government has also restricted international passenger traffic through land checkposts to contain the spread of COVID-19.
All passenger movements through immigration land check posts at borders with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar will be suspended from March 15 till further orders, the ministry had said last week.
The ministry also issued a list of check posts which are exempted from this notification.
"There will be intensified health inspections at all these entry points and any traveller whether Indian or Nepalese or Bhutanese or from any other country showing COVID-19 symptoms or with a recent travel history to one of seven COVID-19 outbreak countries namely Italy, Iran, China, Spain, France, Germany and Republic of Korea shall be subjected to quarantine in the appropriate facility of state or central government," the ministry said in a statement.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.