West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday urged the Centre to suspend domestic flights from states with high number of Covid-19 cases till end of July. She also said that if in such flights infected persons arrive in close proximity to other passengers, it will lead to community transmission.
“If in flights such Covid-19 patients arrive in close proximity to others then there will be community spread and things will go totally out of control. So we are urging the Centre to suspend domestic flights from highly infected areas till July,’ said Banerjee.
Addressing media persons at the state secretariat, Banerjee said that recently some Covid-19 positive persons from Chennai arrived by flight in Kolkata and strangely were allowed to leave the Kolkata Airport.
