Domestic flight services resumed at Calcutta on Thursday. Close to 3,000 passengers travelled to and from the city on 22 flights.
Airport officials said one of the 1,745 passengers who arrived in Calcutta had fever and was sent to hospital for Covid-19 tests. At least 1,214 passengers took flights from Calcutta. The Telegraph spoke to some:
Cancer patient
Tauser Ali Mondal, 57, a farmer from Nadia’s Tehatta who has cancer in the lymph nodes, had gone to Mumbai on March 22 for chemotherapy.
Mondal and his wife Jahanara had planned to take a train back to Calcutta on March 26 but the lockdown had been announced and they had to stay at a guest house in Parel.
