DGCA modifies order to suspend international flights till Jan 31, cargo operations exempted
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday modified its order to extend the suspension on international flights till January 31. The DGCA also said that international flights to and from the United Kingdom will remain suspended till January 7.
The suspension comes in the wake of the discovery of cases of a new infectious strain of SARS-Cov-2, first detected in the United Kingdom. The union health ministry on December 30 recommended the civil aviation ministry to extend the suspension of India-UK flights till January 7, news agency PTI reported. The recommendation was based on inputs from the joint monitoring group headed by director general of health services (DGHS) and the National Task Force headed by DG, Indian Council of Medical Research. The health ministry will subject samples of all international passengers who arrived in India from December 9 to 22 and tested positive for Covid-19, to genome sequencing in order to detected the mutated Covid-19 strain.
