{"id":329679,"date":"2020-12-21T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329679"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:07:02","slug":"india-suspends-uk-flights-till-december-31-amid-concern-over-new-strain-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-suspends-uk-flights-till-december-31-amid-concern-over-new-strain-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"India suspends UK flights till December 31, amid concern over new strain of coronavirus\u00a0"},"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-319598 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/airport.jpg 471w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/airport-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/airport-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/>India on Monday announced a temporary suspension of flights from the United Kingdom amid concern over new coronavirus strain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Government halted flights from and to the UK from December 22, midnight till December 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cConsidering the prevailing situation in UK. Govt. of India has decided that all flights originating from UK to India to be suspended till 31st December 2020 (23.59 hours),\u201d Ministry of Civil Aviation tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis suspension to start w.e.f. 23.59 hours, 22nd December 2020. Consequently flights from India to UK shall stand temporarily suspended during above said period,\u201d the Ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs a measure of abundant precaution, passengers arriving from UK in all\u00a0 transit flights (flights that have taken off or flights which are reaching India before 22nd Dec at 23.59 hrs) should be subject to mandatory RT-PCR test on arrival at the airports concerned,\u201d the Ministry 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>India on Monday announced a temporary suspension of flights from the United Kingdom amid concern over new coronavirus strain. Government halted flights from and to the UK from December 22, midnight till December 31. \u201cConsidering the prevailing situation in UK. Govt. of India has decided that all flights originating from UK to India to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,2959,1783],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329679"}],"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=329679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329680,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329679\/revisions\/329680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}