Flights to UK will restart today amid concerns of ‘highly infectious’ new Covid-19 strain
The government is reopening India-UK flights which were closed in the last week of December amid concerns over the ‘highly infectious’ new Covid-19 strain first spotted in the United Kingdom. Two Air India flights, one from Delhi and one from Mumbai, will fly for London on 6 January.
On Tuesday, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the government is reviewing the situation and it has allowed limited resumption of civil aviation with the United Kingdom. “We took a decision on limited resumption of civil aviation traffic between India and the United Kingdom based on an assessment of available facts as available with our medical professionals. We decided that RT-PCR test which was done 72 hours ahead of travelling was not enough,” Puri told ANI.
In the wake of the new mutant strain of Coronavirus, which is believed to be more contagious, India had put an embargo on flight operations between the two countries on December 21, which became effective from December 23.
