{"id":329676,"date":"2020-12-21T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329676"},"modified":"2020-12-21T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T09:55:59","slug":"delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-urges-centre-to-ban-all-flights-from-uk-amid-fears-of-mutated-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-urges-centre-to-ban-all-flights-from-uk-amid-fears-of-mutated-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal urges Centre to ban all flights from UK amid fears of mutated coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329439 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/arvind-kejriwal-conference.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/arvind-kejriwal-conference.jpg 694w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/arvind-kejriwal-conference-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged the Central government to ban all flights from the UK amid fears of new strain of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal in a tweet said, \u201cNew mutation of corona virus has emerged in UK, which is a super-spreader. I urge central govt to ban all flights from UK immediately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On December 20, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, \u201cAs Prime Minister, it is my duty to take the difficult decisions, to do what is right to protect the people of this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus, and the potential risk it poses, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you we cannot continue with Christmas as planned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are sacrificing our chance to see loved ones this Christmas, so we have a better chance of protecting their lives so we can see them at future Christmases,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Italy have announced bans of flights from the UK on Sunday and others were considering to follow similar action, in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged the Central government to ban all flights from the UK amid fears of new strain of coronavirus. Kejriwal in a tweet said, \u201cNew mutation of corona virus has emerged in UK, which is a super-spreader. I urge central govt to ban all flights from UK immediately.\u201d On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329678,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329676\/revisions\/329678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}