Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday requested the central government to suspend flights to and from Singapore with immediate effect as he warned of a possible new strain of the novel coronavirus detected in the city state that is suspected to affect children.
The chief minister’s statement was however dismissed by the Singapore government statement which said that the comments had “no truth whatsoever” and that there was no “Singapore variant.”
In a Twitter post earlier in the day, Kejriwal had hinted that the alleged new strain could mark the advent of the third wave of covid-19 in the country and urged the central government to give priority to vaccines for children to fight the virus.
