"No Choice": China Firm On Covid Travel Curbs As Indian Students Protest
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Indian students, mostly studying medicine, demonstrated in front of the Chinese embassy demanding Beijing to permit their return to rejoin studies.
China said today that it has "no choice" but to take preventive measures like travel restrictions to contain COVID-19, as it reacted to a demonstration by stranded Indian students in front of its embassy in New Delhi.
China's response came after reports from New Delhi said several Indian students, mostly studying medicine, held a demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy on Monday demanding Beijing to permit their return to rejoin their studies.
Asked for her reaction to the Indian students' demonstration in Delhi, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing here: "COVID-19 is still spreading in many parts of the world".
"So, in this context, the Chinese government has no choice but to take a lot of prevention and control measures," Hua said.
