plague in India has called for an end to restrictions on travellers to and from the country.

But its assessment of the situation has not yet been formally passed on to Bermuda by the WHO, meaning the Island's health advisory to travellers stands.

Two weeks ago, the Health Department issued an advisory to travellers returning from India to see a physician if they develop any fever-like illness.

They were also asked to provide Immigration officers with the addresses of where they were staying, as well as work and telephone numbers.

A Government spokesman said the Health Department had not received any communication from the WHO that would alter the status of its advisory to travellers. The WHO release from New Delhi said the team of experts investigating the outbreak of pneumonic and bubonic plague "called for an end to restrictions on passengers departing from India as well as a relaxation of medical examination of travellers arriving from India.'' Regardless of the stand-down, the experts said health precautions still had to be taken by travellers to the cities of Surat in Gujarat and Beed in Maharshtra.

The team, the statement said, had found evidence of only "limited endemicity.'' It found no evidence that the plague had been transmitted in Bombay, Calcutta, Madrasor Delhi and that "these cities could be considered plague-free.''