Charter flight mix shifts from 70% domestic and 30% int l to 50:50 for both during pandemic msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Maldives has banned tourists from South Asia, cutting off an escape route for wealthy Indians fleeing their own country s COVID-19 crisis.
The atoll nation s Ministry of Tourism and immigration authority announced the temporary ban on Tuesday, 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.
That s the highest number of daily new cases in the country since the start of the pandemic, according to the Health Protection Agency.
ملاذ نجوم بوليوود جزر المالديف تغلق أبوابها أمام الأثرياء الفارين من كورونا في الهند cnn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.