Flights between India and the UK will resume from 8 January, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday. The government had last week extended the suspension of flights to and from the UK from 31 December till 7 January to prevent the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus found in the UK, considered to be much more infectious.
This came in the wake of people arriving from the UK being found to infected with the new strain.
However, operations will be restricted and such flights will only operate to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
