The Ministry of Civil Aviation expressed Monday that the public authority has concluded that all flights starting from the UK to India will be incidentally suspended till 11:59 pm, 31st December. “This suspensionto start outw.e.f. 11.59 pm, 22nd December,” it informed. “Consequently flights from India to UK shall stand temporarily suspended during above said period,” it added.
Meanwhile, asking peopleto notpanic, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan Monday saidthe govtwas on alert about the new strain of coronavirus that has emergedwithin theUK . The Health Ministry’s top advisory bodyis predictedto satisfytodayto debatethe variant,that’sreportedly more infectious. Sources said experts from AIIMSand therefore theIndian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),alongside a representative fromthe World Health Organisation (WHO), will attend the meeting.
Shortly before Vardhan’s appeal, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the Centre to immediately ban all flights from the UK over the “super-spreader” mutation.
India revealed 24,337 Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours finishing 9 am Monday. Up until now, more than one crore and 55 thousand individuals have been contaminated with the infection. With 333 passing provided details regarding Sunday, the cost contacted 1,45,810. There are the same number of as 3.03 lakh dynamic cases in the nation, while 96,06,111 individuals have recuperated from the illness. Kerala is the lone state to report in excess of 5,000 cases.
