new delhi as the coronavirus epidemic gathered intensity with over 305 recorded deaths in china alone india on sunday suspended evisa facility for chinese travellers and foreigners travelling from chinadue to certain current developments travel to india on evisas stands temporarily suspended with immediate effect the indian embassy in beijing announced on twitter this applies to holders of chinese passports and applicants of other nationalities residing in the peoples republic of china holders of already issued evisas may note that these are no longer valid it added while india has not yet suspended flights as the us has done the indian embassy in beijing has left a window open for emergencyimportant travellers from china to india 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 as well as the indian visa application centres in these cities the statement saidan additional concern emerged on sunday when the chinese government said it was tackling a bird flu outbreak in hunan province which is adjacent to hubei province the scene of the coronavirus outbreakon sunday india airlifted a second batch of 323 stranded indians and seven maldivian citizens from wuhan taking the number of people evacuated to 654 air indias 747 jumbo jet made two flights to wuhan ground zero of the coronavirus epidemic in the first flight early on saturday 324 indians were evacuated though a couple of people who showed symptoms like fever had to be left behind those who returned have been kept in quarantine for two weeks before they are allowed outforeign minister s jaishankar tweeted on sunday seven maldivians brought back with 323 indians from wuhan on the second air india flight today neighbourhood first at work again maldives president ibrahim solih thanked the indian government for the assistanceindia had already started scanning visitors from china and hong kong this has been expanded to travellers from singapore and thailand as well so far the virus has infected almost 15000 people while the first death outside china was recorded in the philippines two indians both from kerala have tested positive for novel coronavirusin the initial days the government had said there were almost 1200 indian nationals in hubei province