INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: India on Monday announced it would suspend all flights to and from the United Kingdom in view of the new, fast-spreading mutated
strain of the Sars-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus) in that country
The suspension of flights will be effective from midnight December 22 (Wednesday, 23.59 hours) till December 31 (23.59 hours), the civil
India has decided that all flights originating from the UK to India to be suspended till 31st December 2020 (23.59 hours)
This suspension to start w.e.f
23.59 hours, 22nd December 2020
measure of abundant caution, all passengers coming from the UK on all international flights (including flights in transit) should be
subjected to mandatory RT-PCR tests at airports upon their arrival
Those found positive will be sent to institutional quarantine centres set up by states and Union territories, while those testing negative
have to be under home isolation for seven days, when they will be monitored by government health agencies
countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Belgium, Italy and Israel that have already banned flights to and from the United
been seeing a sustained decline in the number of fresh Covid-19 cases for over two-and-a-half months now accompanied by a decline in the
In this scenario, any interjection of a Sars-CoV-2 variant virus through passengers with a travel history could pose critical risk for
The UK reported 35,928 new positive cases, and 326 deaths within 28 days of a positive test
This will get worse before it gets better -- but it will get better
Rachna Kucheria, MD, Community Medicine, AIIMS, told NDTV.India on Monday registered 24,337 new Covid-19 cases though the active caseload
