Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India Reports 8,865 Covid Cases, Lowest in 287 Days; Singapore to Welcome Fully-vaccinated Travelers from India
News 18West Bengal reopens in-person classes for school students in class IX, X, XI and XII after a gap of nearly two years. Meanwhile, Singapore is planning to allow quarantine-free travel for fully-vaccinated passengers from India and Indonesia from November 29 and will add three more countries early next month as it hopes to reclaim and rebuild the country’s status as an international aviation hub with global connectivity, according to media reports on Monday. The United Kingdom health authorities on Monday extended the rollout of the COVID-19 booster vaccine shots to all those aged 40 and over, from the current over-50s age cohort. India on Monday resumed quarantine-free entry for foreign travellers from 99 countries, which have agreed to a mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates with it, almost 20 months after restrictions were imposed due to COVID-19. Travelers from these 99 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands and Russia, which have been listed under “Category A”, have to submit a self-declaration form on the Air Suvidha portal before the scheduled travel, apart from uploading a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR report, according to the revised Guidelines for International Arrivals released by the Union health ministry on November 11.