{"id":461745,"date":"2021-04-29T14:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461745"},"modified":"2021-04-29T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T18:05:38","slug":"state-department-urges-american-citizens-to-leave-india-as-covid-19-crisis-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-urges-american-citizens-to-leave-india-as-covid-19-crisis-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Urges American Citizens To Leave India As COVID-19 Crisis Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-department-urges-american-citizens-to-leave-india-as-covid-19-crisis-worsens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4091.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \" data-el=\"text\">The State Department suggested that Americans try to book nonstop flights home, stopping in Europe only if other options are unavailable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \" data-el=\"text\">\u201cDirect flights between India and the United States are offered daily, with additional flight options available to U.S. citizens via transfers in Paris and Frankfurt,\u201d the State Department noted.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Americans considering traveling to India are urged to postpone their trips.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cThe current Level 4 Travel Advisory is the highest level issued by the Department of State and advises U.S. citizens not to travel to India or to leave as soon as it is safe to do so due to the current health situation in country,\u201d the agency concluded, adding that it is currently booking \u201cvoluntary departures\u201d for any United States government officials or employees who are working in India. The U.S. Embassy New Delhi and its consulates, the agency said, \u201cremain open and are offering limited consular services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">India is \u201cshattering\u201d global records for new daily COVID-19 infections, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/550915-state-department-urging-americans-to-leave-india-as-covid-19-cases-surge\">The Hill added in its coverage<\/a> of the State Department\u2019s warning. On Wednesday alone, India saw \u201c62,757 new cases\u201d of the virus, \u201cpushing its total case count to over 17.9 million. Nearly 3,300 people died on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">India\u2019s government is struggling to manage the crisis. The country\u2019s crematoriums are currently at capacity, leaving families to care for their own dead relatives, and the nation is struggling to correctly allocate medical resources desperately needed to care for COVID-19 patients, like oxygen and doses of the antiviral drug Remdesivir. The country is even having difficulty finding hospital beds.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">And experts believe India\u2019s COVID-19 crisis has yet to reach its peak.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Expert commenters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/modis-pandemic-choice-protect-his-image-or-protect-india-he-chose-himself\/2021\/04\/28\/44cc0d22-a79e-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html\">point out that India was likely headed toward a pandemic-driven disaster<\/a> after dramatically underfunding its healthcare infrastructure, quickly imposing \u2014 and almost as quickly lifting \u2014 \u201cdraconian\u201d lockdown measures, and failing to plan for a second wave of the virus. The country is also in the grips of political infighting, which seems to be further slowing the government\u2019s pandemic response.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">The first of several planned aid flights will leave the United States for India on Thursday, and the U.S. has committed more than $100 million in help to the struggling nation.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cThe assistance includes oxygen cylinders, concentrators that obtain oxygen out of the air, 15 million N95 masks, 1 million rapid tests, and experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u201d The Hill reported. \u201cThe U.S. is also sending supplies to help with the manufacturing of over 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department suggested that Americans try to book nonstop flights home, stopping in Europe only if other options are unavailable.\u201cDirect flights between India and the United States are offered &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277012,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4091.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"State Department Urges American Citizens To Leave India As COVID-19 Crisis Worsens","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4091.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"State Department Urges American Citizens To Leave India As COVID-19 Crisis Worsens","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}