Malaysia bars travellers from India, Indonesia, Philippines amid COVID.19 spread

▴ Malaysia bars travellers from India, Indonesia, Philippines amid COVID.19 spread
India is the third most affected country by the pandemic behind the United States and Brazil, with its coronavirus tally reaching nearly 3.7 million on Tuesday

Malaysia on Tuesday said it would bar section of long term immigration pass holders from India, Indonesia, and the Philippines from September 7, in an offer to reduce imported COVID-19  cases in the midst of a spate of new groups in the nation.

Healthcare experts in Southeast Asia's third-biggest economy have recorded more than 9,300 cases as of Tuesday, and 128 passings, with new cases found in bunches recognized in any event four states.

The section prohibition on pass holders from the three nations will incorporate permanent residents, expatriates, students and those on spouse visas  of Malaysia's My Second Home program, senior priest Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.

"The choice was made on the counsel of the wellbeing service to clip down on the spread of imported COVID-19 cases," Ismail Sabri said in broadcast newsgathering.

India is the third most influenced nation by the pandemic behind the United States and Brazil, with the nation's Covid count arriving at almost 3.7 million on Tuesday.

A sum of 7,505 individuals has died on of the Covid in Indonesia, the most elevated in the district, while the Philippines, which has revealed more than 224,000 cases, has seen a persistent ascent in diseases.

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