The president of Australia’s peak medical association has written to the nation’s leaders calling on the government to expedite the repatriation of Australians from India and to remove penalties such as fines or jail time for those who breach the current travel ban.
India is grappling with a surge of COVID-19 cases, reporting over 300,000 daily infections over the past 10 days, pushing the total number of cases close to 2 million.
