{"id":319619,"date":"2020-02-02T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319619"},"modified":"2020-02-02T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T11:07:31","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-india-temporarily-suspends-e-visa-facility-for-chinese-and-foreigners-living-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-outbreak-india-temporarily-suspends-e-visa-facility-for-chinese-and-foreigners-living-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus outbreak: India temporarily suspends e-visa facility for Chinese and foreigners living in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319236 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus.jpg 481w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/>India on Sunday temporarily suspended e-visa facility for Chinese travellers and foreigners residing in China with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Due to certain current developments, travel to India on e-visas stands temporarily suspended with immediate effect,&#8221; the Indian Embassy announced in Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis applies to holders of Chinese passports and applicants of other nationalities residing in the People\u2019s Republic of China,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHolders of already issued E-visas may note that these are no longer valid. All those who have a compelling reason to visit India may contact the Embassy of India in Beijing or the Indian consulates in Shanghai or Guangzhou, and the Indian Visa Application Centres in these cities,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India today, airlifted the second batch of 323 stranded Indians and seven Maldivian citizens from coronavirus-hit Wuhan city, taking the total number of people evacuated to 654.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0outbreak started in Wuhan, capital of China\u2019s Hubei province, in December and has now spread across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Sunday temporarily suspended e-visa facility for Chinese travellers and foreigners residing in China with immediate effect. &#8220;Due to certain current developments, travel to India on e-visas stands temporarily suspended with immediate effect,&#8221; the Indian Embassy announced in Beijing. \u201cThis applies to holders of Chinese passports and applicants of other nationalities residing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[666,12470,12532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319620,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319619\/revisions\/319620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}